California Department of Corrections
| California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | |
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| Common name | Department of Corrections |
| Abbreviation | CDCR |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1885 |
| Preceding agency | California Department of Corrections, California Youth Authority |
| Employees | 66,800 |
| Annual budget | US$10.1 billion (2011) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Operations jurisdiction* | State of California, USA |
| Size | 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2) |
| Population | 36,756,666 (2008 est.) |
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction. |
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| Headquarters | Sacramento, California |
| Agency executive | Scott Kernan, Secretary |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems. Its headquarters are in Sacramento.
CDCR is the 3rd largest law enforcement in the United States behind the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) which is an arm of Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), and the New York City Police Department, which employ approximately 66,000 federal officers and 42,000 police officers respectively. CDCR correctional officers are sworn law enforcement officers with peace officer powers.
As of 2013, CDCR employed approximately 24,000 peace officers (state correctional officers), 1,800 state parole agents, and 600 criminal investigators/special agents.
In 1851, California activated its first state run institutions. This institution was a 268-ton wooden ship named The Waban, and was anchored in the San Francisco Bay. The prison ship housed 30 inmates who subsequently constructed San Quentin State Prison, which opened in 1852 with approximately 68 inmates.
Since 1852, the Department has activated thirty one prisons across the state. CDCR's history dates back to 1912 when the agency was called California State Detentions Bureau. In 1951 it was renamed California Department of Corrections. In 2004 it was renamed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
In 2016-2017 it cost an average of $70,836 to house an inmate for one year
In 2004, a Corrections Independent Review Panel suggested "Reorganizing the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency". The Agency had consisted of "the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, the Board of Prison Terms, the Board of Corrections, the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Board and the Youth Authority Board."
Schwarzenegger made a reorganization plan public in January 2005 implementing many of the recommendations of the panel but without "a citizens commission overseeing the state's entire correctional operation." The reorganization became effective on July 1, 2005. The CDCR superseded the:
Newsletter http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/
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