a Sheriff\u2019s Department report<\/a>. That\u2019s 7% of the population.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re causing the issue by keeping them in counties, so they say their numbers are down, so they\u2019re closing prisons,\u201d said Correctional Officer Jeremiah Rohbock, who wrote the initial letter.<\/p>\n
The Norco prison has open beds, low costs per inmate and more rehabilitation and certification programs than most prisons, Rohbock added.<\/p>\n
The CDCR\u2019s weekly report says that the prison has 2,460 inmates, and was designed for 1,822. Rohbock said the facility has enough beds to add additional inmates.<\/p>\n
There are eight criteria the CDCR uses to identify which prisons close. Those include population trends, operational costs, facility condition, geographic considerations, impact on staff, program availability, legislative directives and public safety considerations.<\/p>\n
After publication, CDCR spokesperson Terri Hardy wrote that the California Rehabilitation Center was chosen to be closed due to infrastructure costs, its uneven grounds and its population.<\/p>\n
The prison \u201chas older, wooden facilities and would require significant infrastructure investment to update structures that are in disrepair. Uneven terrain at the prison limits the prison\u2019s ability to house incarcerated persons with American with Disabilities Act (ADA) needs,\u201d Hardy wrote. \u201cAdditionally, CRC\u2019s population \u2014 primarily lower-level incarcerated people with less than ten years to serve \u2013 are more easily relocated,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
The Aug. 4 announcement that the California Rehabilitation Center will close by fall 2026 cited projections of lower prison populations and the importance of cost savings. It did not specifically say why the Norco prison was chosen out of the 31 prisons operated by the state. A short description of the facility mentioned its origins as a luxury hotel and a naval hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs someone who\u2019s worked here at CRC for 15 years, we knew that CRC has this aura about it, that they feel this is some old naval base that has been converted in the 1950s, and it\u2019s been falling apart,\u201d said Rohbock.<\/p>\n
The old hotel, he said, isn\u2019t part of the prison\u2019s operations. The majority of buildings are modular, and maintained as part of the inmates\u2019 rehabilitation programs, he said. As far as the cost, he said the prison is the fifth-most cost effective per inmate.<\/p>\n
The letters also invited Bonta to visit the prison.<\/p>\n
The attorney general\u2019s office declined to comment on the letters. \u201cWe are seeking to compel much-needed, comprehensive reform to Los Angeles County jails through our lawsuit, and our complaint includes all we are able to share at this time,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n
McGloin writes for CalMatters where this report originally appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Correctional officers at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco have started writing Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,129219,129222,129224,128829,129218,6808,129223,129221,49136,2961,224,6080,5337,129217,31111,5332,129220,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-242116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-rehabilitation-center","11":"tag-cdcr","12":"tag-correctional-officer","13":"tag-county-jail","14":"tag-crc","15":"tag-facility","16":"tag-felon","17":"tag-initial-letter","18":"tag-inmate","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-county","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-norco-prison","24":"tag-population","25":"tag-prison","26":"tag-rohbock","27":"tag-state"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238217035350446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}