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| Shuttering Norco prison will move prisoners to other facilities |
| By vvdailypress.com - Beatriz E. Valenzuela, Staff Writer |
| Published: 05/02/2012 |
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As California prison officials ready to possibly shutter the state prison in Norco to save $160 million a year, many are left wondering what will happen to the nearly 4,000 inmates housed at the rehabilitation center. "No inmates would be released early," said Jeffrey Callison, press secretary for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in an email. “When the California Rehabilitation Center at Norco closes, its inmates will be transferred to other institutions, including the new Level 2 infill projects that we are also planning to build inside existing institutions.” The prison system’s plan includes creating new, more efficient level II dorm capacity, such as is planned to take place at the DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facility annex in Stockton and up to three other existing prisons. The California Health Care Facility in Stockton will house inmates requiring long-term medical care and intensive mental health, according to a reports from the CDCR entitled, “The Future of California Corrections.” It’s slated for completion during the summer of 2013. Its annex will open in the summer of 2014 to create a unified Stockton complex. Each new facility will house approximately 800 inmates. Placing these new beds at existing facilities is more efficient because it takes advantage of the existing infrastructure and management of an established facility, the report states. Also, the ongoing operating costs of dorm versus celled facilities reduces the long term costs of these beds. Read More. |
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