California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. The cuts are falling on small towns that banked on government jobs to anchor their communities. Then the state moved to ...

This small community -- full of peach orchards and plain speakers -- didn't plan on falling in love with a prison. But since 1989, when California's only minimum-security women's prison opened ...

Never mind the prospect of guard towers, razor wire and even the occasional jailbreak — small towns in many parts of California are welcoming prisons, and the jobs that come with them, with open ...

The Times podcast: The end of a small town’s prison economy The California Correctional Center, a minimum-security state prison, in Susanville. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) ...

The small California community of ... This prison town has ... to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median earning nationally for men in 2020 was just over $61,000 and nearly $51,000 for women.

When your town’s business is punishment, what do you do when you’re being punished? That predicament faces Susanville, a small town in Lassen County, in Northeast California. Gov. Gavin Newsom is ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...

When a Small Town’s Private Prison Goes Bust Contrary to popular belief, private prisons often don’t save the economies of the rural towns that seek them out. ... Arizona, and California.

California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. The cuts are falling on small towns that banked on government jobs to anchor… This California Town Was Already Dying.

California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. Skip Navigation. ... with three of them in the small towns of Susanville, California City and Blythe.