Английская Википедия:California State Prison, Centinela
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California State Prison, Centinela (CEN) is a male-only state prison located in Imperial County, California, approximately Шаблон:Convert from Imperial and El Centro.[1] The facility is sometimes referenced Centinela State Prison.[2]
Facilities
CEN is situated on Шаблон:Convert.[2] Of its housing units, 1 Level IV GP, 2 Level III GP, 1 Level III SNY yards ("5 two tier buildings on each yard, 100 Double occupancy cells per building, razor wire cinder block/ chain link fenced perimeters and armed coverage") all surrounded by an additional electrified fence protected by two razor wire atop chain link fences and 1 Level I yard (2 buildings, open dormitory, maximum capacity of 200 inmates each, with secure chain link fence perimeter). Facility also includes a "CTC" ("Correctional Treatment Center", treating medical, dental, and mental health issues with an integrated hospital type area/ department)."ADSEG" (administrative segregation) has a maximum occupancy of 175, and a Firehouse (Centinela Fire Department, CEP is the three letter identifier) that houses 8 Level I inmates actively trained as structural/ wildland firefighters. Centinela Fire Department is part of the institutions rehabilitation program. It provides rigorous and accelerated training meeting state fire certification, equivalent to a volunteer structural/ wildland firefighter. A library facility was established in 2016.[2][3]
Population and staffing
As of Fiscal Year 2007/2008, CEN had a total of 1,266 staff and an annual institutional operating budget of $161 million.[2] As of December 2008, it had a design capacity of 2,383 but a total institution population of 5,097, for an occupancy rate of 213% percent.[4]
As of April 30, 2020, CEN was incarcerating people at 142.3% of its design capacity, with 3,284 occupants.[5]
History
CEN was named after Cerro Centinela, the Spanish name for Mount Signal which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border. The prison opened in October 1993,[2] approximately 22 months after Calipatria State Prison located approximately Шаблон:Convert north.[2]
A 1994 statute "require[d] the U.S. attorney general either to agree to compensate a state for incarcerating an illegal immigrant or to take the undocumented criminal into federal custody."[6] In January 1996, the administration of Governor Pete Wilson "tested the law" by asking Immigration and Naturalization Service agents "to take custody of a 25-year-old illegal immigrant serving time in Centinela State Prison for drug offenses"; however, the agents refused.[6] Therefore, in March 1996 Wilson sued the federal government to enforce the 1994 law.[6]
As of 1997, CEN was the "most overcrowded prison in the state" as it ran at "259 percent of designed capacity."[7] By 2007, however, Avenal State Prison was the California state prison system's "most overcrowded facility."[8]
In August 2006, a quadriplegic inmate died after the air conditioning failed in a van carrying him and another inmate from California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran to CEN.[9] According to a reporter's summary of statements by "the federal official now in control of medical care in the state's prison system," the death was "proof of a broken system"; according to the reporter's summary of statements by representatives of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the death was "a terrible event caused by happenstance."[9]
Notable prisoners
- Cimarron Bell (born 1974) - Serial killer
- Blake Leibel - Perpetrator of the 2018 murder of Iana Kasian[10]
- Loi Khac Nguyen (born c. 1974) - One of several perpetrators of the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis[11]
- John Leonard Orr (born 1949) - Serial arsonist and mass murderer[12]
- Sanyika Shakur (1963-2021) - Gang member; transferred elsewhere and released on parole[13]
- Genaro Villanueva (born c. 1969) - Convicted of murdering actor David Huffman[14]
- Damian M. Williams (born 1973) - One of several attackers of Reginald Denny in 1992; was released but reincarcerated for murder in 2000[15][16]
- Earlonne Woods - Podcast author convicted of attempted second-degree robbery; later transferred to San Quentin State Prison and released[17]
References
External links
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- ↑ California State Board of Equalization. Prison Impact Study. Supplemental Report of the 2001 Budget Act for FY 2001-02. March 28, 2002.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. California's Correctional Facilities. Шаблон:Webarchive Accessed 24 Dec 2007.
- ↑ California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Monthly Report of Population as of Midnight September 30, 2007. Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Holding, Reynolds. Wilson Sues Over Cost of Illegal Immigrants - Again. He says U.S. broke law by not accepting inmate. San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 1996.
- ↑ Furillo, Andy. Pressures Building in State's 32 Prisons. Sacramento Bee, January 19, 1997.
- ↑ Furillo, Andy. Health care crisis behind bars: Three deaths in two months focus federal attention on state's most overcrowded facility. The Sacramento Bee, May 4, 2007.
- ↑ 9,0 9,1 Martin, Mark. Inmate stuck in van for hours died in desert heat. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2006.
- ↑ https://www.chicagotribune.com/la-me-ln-blake-leibel-convicted-20180620-story.html
- ↑ https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/
- ↑ Wambaugh. p. 388
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