California State Prison, Corcoran
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| Location | Corcoran, California |
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| Coordinates | 36°03′36″N 119°32′56″W / 36.060°N 119.549°WCoordinates: 36°03′36″N 119°32′56″W / 36.060°N 119.549°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Minimum–maximum |
| Capacity | 3,116 |
| Population | 3,878 (as of 30 April 2016) |
| Opened | February 1988 |
| Managed by | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Warden | Dave Davey |
California State Prison, Corcoran (COR) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Corcoran, in Kings County, California. Also known as Corcoran State Prison, CSP-C, CSP-COR, CSP-Corcoran, and Corcoran I, it should not be confused with the newer California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran (Corcoran II) located just south of the facility.
As of Fiscal Year 2002/2003, COR had a total of 1,703 staff and an annual institutional budget of US$115 million. As of April 2016, the facility's total population was 3,870, or more than of 124 percent of its design capacity of 3,116.
Built on what was once Tulare Lake, home to the Yokut Native American people, the facility opened in 1988. The prison hospital was dedicated in October 1993.
In March 1993, at Corcoran, prisoner Wayne Jerome Robertson had raped Eddie Dillard, a prisoner about half his size, after the latter was reassigned to his cell. Robertson, who had the nickname "Booty Bandit", testified in 1999 that prison guards set up the attack. Dillard testified in the same trial. After Robertson was assigned to general population at Pelican Bay State Prison, California state senator Tom Hayden stated "It is almost certain that he would be targeted for death."
A front-page article by Mark Arax in the August 1996 Los Angeles Times claimed that COR was "the most troubled of the 32 state prisons". At the time, COR officers had shot and killed more inmates "than any prison in the country" in COR's eight years of existence. Seven inmates had been killed, and 50 others seriously wounded. Based on interviews and documents, Arax concluded that many shootings of prisoners were "not justified" and that in some cases "the wrong inmate was killed by mistake". Furthermore, the article alleged that "officers ... and their supervisors staged fights between inmates" during "gladiator days". In November 1996, CBS Evening News broadcast "video footage of an inmate fatally shot by guards" at COR in 1994; this death "spawned a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of alleged inmate abuses by guards".
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