Incarceration in California

Incarceration in California spans federal, state, county, and city governance, with approximately 200,000 people in confinement at any given time.

One BOP facility, Taft Correctional Institution, is operated by Management and Training Corporation (MCT), a private company.

[1] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts with various private companies to detain people in California.

The conservation camp program mission is to "support state, local and federal government agencies as they respond to emergencies such as fires, floods, and other natural or manmade disasters."

[5] DJJ owns and operates 3 prisons and 1 youth fire camp, with a total design capacity of roughly 750 incarcerated people.

The majority of people incarcerated in California's county jails have not been sentenced (they are pre-trial and have not been convicted of a crime).

Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions",[11] which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails.

All federal, state, and county incarceration facilities in California.
FCI Dublin, one of five federal prisons for women in the United States
Aerial view of San Quentin, including the housing units, yard, education center, and Prison Industry Authority facilities
Incarcerated firefighters fight the Rim Fire in California in 2013
Aerial view of Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County