Last week, I reported on a Daily Mail exclusive that crunched the numbers and showed that thousands of pedophiles were being let out of prison after serving less than a year.
Since so many prisoners of all types have been released, California is closing several prisons, including the last private facility.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the California City Correctional Facility, in Kern County, will shut down in March 2024 when the state’s $32 million-a-year contract with CoreCivic expires. The all-male prison now holds 1,893 inmates, 8.8% above its designed capacity.The department also said it would begin steps to close Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe (Riverside County) by March 2025. The medium-security male facility holds 2,039 inmates, 17.3% above its designed capacity.In addition, the department said, during 2023 it plans to close the women’s section of Folsom State Prison in Sacramento County and parts of the prisons at Pelican Bay (Del Norte County), the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco (Riverside County), the California Institution for Men in Chino (San Bernardino County), and the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi (Kern County). Their inmates will be transferred to other prisons after the closures.The department said it would “work to limit the impact to employees,” allowing them to transfer to other prisons. It said it would work with community members in Riverside County “to help support workers and foster a bottom-up economic resilience plan” to ease the impact of closing the Chuckwalla Valley prison.
Not surprisingly, leaders and business owners in the impacted communities are worried about what the future will look like.
The facility in Tehachapi is slated to close come Summer 2023, meaning 800 inmates will be moved to other prisons. The facility’s closure will also impact the lives of employees, the City of Tehachapi, and local businesses around the prison.”My own staff, one of my managers, her father works there,” said Mano Lujan, owner of the Red House BBQ in Tehachapi. “My other staff has an uncle there. Everybody knows somebody that works out of that prison.”Lujan describes a tight-knit community, and it’s one that he sees being uprooted when those employees at the California Correctional Institution have to decide to relocate or find another job.
Meanwhile, the smash-and-grab robberies continue.
A restaurant manager says crime near the southern border has impacted his ability to stay open after his businesses endured a string of smash-and-grab robberies just weeks before Christmas.Ahipoki managing partner Jason Jantzen joined “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday to discuss how the robberies have affected the company’s bottom line and its employees.”We’re not opening on time,” Jantzen told co-host Todd Piro. “We’re not serving our customers… That happens often enough, the people just stop coming… sometimes we’re lucky to open at all, so there’s a loss of revenue. These employees don’t get to work. They’re not earning money.””So it’s not just a simple smash-and-grab where… they take the cash and everything goes on with no consequence,” he continued. “There’s a lot of people involved, and it really does affect the flow of business.”
California has morphed into a Sanctuary State for criminals.
The state is an open experiment to determine how many prisoners must be released before the citizens become prisoners. I suspect we are very close to achieving that level.
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