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California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2022
by Keith Sanders
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2022, page 32
Filed under:
Rural Prisons.
Location:
California.
by Keith Sanders
In the 1950s, the timber mills in Susanville, California, began to shutter. For this isolated town of about 8,000 residents, the economic impact of losing its only industry was devastating. But in 1963 the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) came to the rescue. The department …
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