Is the Noro Prison Solution to the County Prison crisis?

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Correctional officials at the CRC California Center (CRC) in Noro began to write General Prosecutor Rob Bonta to keep the prison open, presenting it as an option to relieve overpopulation in district prisons.

California began to put some convicted criminals in district prisons in 2011 after the Supreme Court ruled that overcrowding in state prisons led to a brutal and unusual punishment. Now, according to the Prosecutor General of the Judicial Process Rob Bont, facing Los Angeles County On September 8The district prisons are overcrowded and uninhabited.

In March, 878 prisoners held in Los Angeles County were convicted of crimes, according to Sheriff’s DepartmentS This is 7% of the population.

“They cause the problem by keeping them in the counties, so they say their number is reduced, so they close prisons,” said the correctional employee Jeremiah Robok, who wrote the original letter.

The Norko Prison has open beds, low prisoner costs and more programs for rehabilitation and certification by most prisons, Robok added.

The CDCR weekly report said that the prison currently has 2460 prisoners and was designed for 1822. Robok said the facility had enough beds to add additional prisoners.

There are eight criteria that CDCR uses to identify which prisons close. These include trends in the population, operating costs, the condition of the facility, geographical considerations, staff impact, availability of the program, legislative directives and public safety considerations.

CDCR did not respond to a number of requests to comment on why the Norko prison was selected to be closed, the prison costs or the potential impact of the convicted persons held in the district prisons.

Their message on August 4, that CRC will end in the fall of 2026, cited forecasts for a lower prison population and the importance of cost savings. This did not specifically say why the Norko prison was selected from the 31 prisons that are currently governed by the state. A brief description of the facility referred to its origin as a luxury hotel and naval hospital.

“Like someone who has worked here in CRC for 15 years, we knew that CRC had this aura for thinking that it was some old naval base that was transformed in the 1950s and it was falling apart,” Rochbok said.

The old hotel, he said, is not part of prison operations. The bigger part of the buildings are modular and are maintained as part of the prisoners’ rehabilitation programs, he said. As for the costs, he said the prison is the fifth largest economically effective for a prisoner.

The letters also invited Bont to visit prison.

The Prosecutor General declined to comment on the letters. “We strive to force the much necessary and complete reform in prisons in Los Angeles County through our trial and our complaint involves everything we can share right now,” they wrote.

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