[4] Also located in Lassen County is the state California Correctional Center, a minimum-security prison.

A third prison facility, the Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong, is also located within Lassen County, California.

Although there are buildings to house certain inmates in protective custody, such as sex offenders, officers put other prisoners near them.

The prison has had a rapid turnover in top management for nearly a decade, with seven wardens in eight years.

In their report investigators wrote there was a "perception of insularity and indifference to inmates" at High Desert, exacerbated by its remoteness and "a labor organization that opposes oversight to the point of actively discouraging members from coming forward with information that could … adversely affect another officer.