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CSP LA - Lancaster
Last post 10-25-2007 3:47 PM by Liferzwife. 1 replies.
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07-26-2007 7:03 PM
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arhunt
 
 - Joined on 07-07-2007
- Northridge, CA
- Posts 1,414
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44750 60th Street West
Lancaster, CA 93536-7620
(661) 729-2000
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California
State Prison, Los Angeles County - Mission Statement
The mission of CSP-Los Angeles County is to be both a Reception Center for short term housing and to provide secure
long-term housing and services for men who have been convicted of felonies
classified as minimum, high-medium and maximum custody inmates. The
institution provides educational/vocational programming designed to encourage
productivity, inmate responsibility and self-improvement.
Institution Statistics
CSP-LAC was opened February 1993, and covers 262
acres. As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, the following statistics apply:
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Number of custody staff:
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957
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Number of support services staff:
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562
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Total number of staff:
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1,519
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Designed Bedspace & Count
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Facility
Level
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Design
Capacity
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Count
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I
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200
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400
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IV
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500
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1,987
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RC
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500
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2,255
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ASU
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150
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122
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Total
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1,350
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4,764 |
Special Historical Notes
CSP-Los Angeles County is the first and only state prison
located in Los Angeles County. INMATE PROGRAMS -
PIA: Detergent production, laundry.
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Vocational: Office Services, Mill and Cabinet, Office Services Related Technology, Plumbing and Janitorial.
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Academic: Adult Basic Education, GED, Pre Release, Literacy Program, Coastline Community Correspondence College.
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Other: Community Service Crews, Religious Services Program, Arts and Corrections, Victim Awarness.
Visiting Hours
Saturdays, Sundays and Designated Holidays* from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
*New
Year's Day,
Independence Day,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas
Ciao,
AH
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Liferzwife
 - Joined on 10-17-2007
- Northern California
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CSP - Los Angeles Honor Farm
We need more honor in the prisons
The governor should not have vetoed the highly successful Prison
Honor Program
By Kenneth E. Hartman
October 23, 2007
Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of Senate
Bill 299, which would have mandated Honor Programs throughout the
dysfunctional California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is a
mistake that illustrates all too well the failure of this state's leaders to
understand what needs to be done to rescue the prison system.
In my 28
continuous years of incarceration, I have not ever served time on a more
productive, more positive or more rehabilitation-friendly yard than here in the Honor Program. You
see, the sad truth is California's prisons are worse than a mess, they are a
catastrophe. Costs are spiraling, thousands of guard positions are vacant,
violence is pervasive, and the federal courts are about one hearing away from
seizing
control of the whole disaster. Recidivism rates are so bad that many of
the 174,000 prisoners are actually parole violators.
But down here on
Facility-A at California State Prison-Los Angeles County, hidden up in the high
desert north of Los Angeles, a remarkable thing has happened over the past few
years. Prisoners, some forward-thinking staff and a cadre of selfless volunteers
have worked together to create an island of relative calm in the storm. The
facts are compelling: violence is way down; drug and alcohol abuse is down. In
fact, the difference between the Honor Program yard and any other in the state
is so dramatic that administrators from other prisons come here to see it with
their own jaded and unbelieving eyes.
The program works because it
rewards positive behavior; encourages prisoners to make serious,
transformational change; it holds individuals accountable; and is voluntary. The
prison system, as a whole, fails because it uses only negative reinforcement,
blocks all efforts to make positive change, uses group punishment and forces
prisoners into ill-conceived programs, regardless of need or desire. Simply
affixing the label "rehabilitation" onto the same old system of force and
coercion won't work and, as recent history has shown, it hasn't
worked.
The governor, in his veto message, stated that SB299 was
"unnecessary because the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) already has
the authority to establish and expand honor programs administratively." While
the governor is technically correct, the bill was necessary because the CDCR has
not established, or formally implemented, any Honor Programs. What we have done
here locally has been resisted, bungled and undermined by the leadership of the
prisons for the past eight years.
So, another real opportunity to
actually bring rehabilitation into the prison system has been squandered.
Perhaps the prison bosses have persuaded the governor that they are working to
make things better, that they don't need to be compelled by legislation. If so,
I'm afraid that still another governor has been duped.
One thing I am
certain of is that the work we have done to bring reform and sanity into this
system will, eventually, come to fruition. The desire of human beings to live as
human beings is irrepressible. The Honor Program isn't going away; all good
ideas have a power that carries them on.
Kenneth E. Hartman, C-19449,
was instrumental in the founding of the Honor Program at California State
Prison-Los Angeles County, and serves as the chairman of its steering committee.
For more information, visit www.prisonhonorprogram.org
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Terry Ann
TerryAnn@Reform3StrikesNow.org
http://www.kernvalleystateprison.info
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kvsp-delano2
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Old_Folsom_Prison_Info
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sanquentinhope
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