Facilities
CCWF covers 640 acres (260 ha). As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CCWF had a total of 1,205 staff and an annual operating budget of US$138 million. As of March 2012, the facility's total population was 2,836, or more than of 141.5 percent of its design capacity of 2,004.
CCWF holds prisoners at almost all security levels:
- Reception Center (RC) – provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates
Level I through Level IV are all housed together inside a 32 room housing unit. There are 256 inmates of all levels housed together with only three Correctional Officers. On the Reception Yard there are 276 inmates per housing unit of unclassified inmates supervised by only two officers.
- Condemned (Cond) housing – holds inmates with death sentences
The prison provides inmate academic education, work and vocational training, counseling and specialized programs for the purpose of successful reintegration into society.
The Chowchilla Family Express provides transportation for family members from major California cities to visit prisoners at the facility.
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