California Institution for Women ( CIW ) is an American women's state prison located in the city of Chino , San Bernardino County, California , east of Los Angeles , although the mailing address states " Corona ," which is in Riverside County, California .
14-584: CIW has multiple meanings: California Institution for Women , a state prison in the USA Canadian Index of Wellbeing , that measures the wellbeing of Canadians over time Carnegie Institution of Washington Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad Central Indiana and Western Railroad Certified Internet Web Professional Coalition of Immokalee Workers Computational Intensive Workload ISO 639 language designation for Southwestern dialect of
28-494: A design capacity of 1,398 but a total institution population of 2,155, for an occupancy rate of 154.1 percent. As of April 30, 2020, CIW was incarcerating people at 111.1% of its design capacity, with 2,640 occupants. CIW is located east of Downtown Los Angeles , and it takes about one hour to travel to the prison from Downtown LA. The original California Institution for Women was dedicated in Tehachapi in 1932; however, after
42-474: A secure perimeter") housing, Level II ("Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage") housing, and Level III ("Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage") housing. In addition, a Reception Center "provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates." As of Fiscal Year 2008/2009, CIW had 977 staff and an annual budget of $ 75 million Institutional and $ 2.6 million Education. As of October 31, 2013, it had
56-633: Is "Voices from Within" in which inmates read books on tapes for "high school students in remedial classes," "college students with reading disabilities," and the blind. In 2007, the state of California proposed building 45 new units for mentally ill inmates at CIW and 975 at the nearby California Institution for Men ; local officials opposed such plans. From 2006 to 2013 one woman at CIW committed suicide. From January 1, 2013 to July 2016 six women committed suicide at CIW, and there had been an increase in suicide attempts. California Correctional Institution California Correctional Institution ( CCI )
70-617: Is a supermax state prison in the city of Tehachapi in Southern California. CCI is sometimes referred to as "Tehachapi prison" or "Tehachapi". As stated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation , its overall mission is "to incarcerate and control felons, while providing the opportunity for meaningful work, training and other programs. The prison provides programs for those inmates who are willing to work and participate fully in available programs." CCI
84-621: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages California Institution for Women Although the official California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation documents give a "Corona, California" mailing address for CIW in Riverside County , the prison has been physically located in the city of Chino since 2003 following an annexation of land in previously- unincorporated San Bernardino County . CIW has 120 acres (49 ha). Its facilities include Level I ("Open dormitories without
98-487: Is in the Cummings Valley region. CCI has 1,650 acres (670 ha) including Level I ("Open dormitories with a secure perimeter") housing; Level II ("Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage") housing; Level III ("Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage") housing; Level IV ("Cells, fenced or walled perimeters, electronic security, more staff and armed officers both inside and outside
112-452: The 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21, "made the brick dormitories unsafe", the institution was closed and the 417 prisoners were sent to the new California Institution for Women in Corona . The prison was reopened in 1954 as CCI, an all-men's prison. In 1985–1986, maximum and medium security facilities were added to it. The Southern Maximum Security Complex at Tehachapi was "touted as
126-520: The 1952 Kern County earthquake , the female inmates were transferred to the just-opened CIW in Chino, and the Tehachapi facility was rebuilt as the male-only California Correctional Institution . CIW was originally called "California Institution for Women at Corona," but "Corona residents objected to the use of their city in the prison's name and it was changed March 1, 1962, to Frontera, a feminine derivative of
140-640: The Anishinaabe language , often called the "Chippewa language." Close-in weapon system See also [ edit ] Crime intelligence and wing Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CIW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CIW&oldid=874348937 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
154-464: The first women's facility in California, opened on the site of what is now CCI in 1932. It was sometimes referred to as "Tehachapi", as in the 1940s films Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity . The institution was "run for many years independently from the correctional system for men" but beginning in 1944 was gradually brought under the control of the California Department of Corrections . After
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#1732855270339168-433: The installation") housing; a Security Housing Unit (SHU, which is "the most secure area within a Level IV prison designed to provide maximum coverage"); and a Reception Center (RC) which "provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates." As of November 2020, the facility's total population was 2983, or 107.2 percent of its design capacity of 2,783. The original California Institution for Women,
182-519: The most advanced in the country", but was also "called a ' white elephant ' and a 'Cadillac' because it took so long to build and cost so much". Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "directed inmate firefighters and staff from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ", including those from CCI, to help fight the October 2007 California wildfires . The women's prison has been frequently mentioned in popular film and radio, particularly during
196-543: The word frontier, symbolic for a new beginning." It housed the location of the death row for women in the state. CIW was the only women's prison in California until 1987, when the Northern California Women's Facility opened. In the early years of CIW, convicted women wore Sunday dresses while walking and working at the campus-like setting until the 1980s when three towers were added with officers atop armed with shotguns. Among other programs for inmates at CIW
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