Rehabilitation
From learning job skills to earning diplomas, rehabilitation is a cornerstone of the department. As of 2026, 11 percent of CDCR’s overall budget goes toward rehabilitation.
At Corcoran and Pleasant Valley prisons, staff and the population worked to raise awareness about suicide prevention. Corcoran staff, incarcerated...
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To better serve those reentering our communities on DAPO supervision, CDCR is opening new Reentry Resource Centers that act as...
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California State Prison, Sacramento, has joined the ranks of other institutions training service dogs.
On October 1, students at Ventura Youth Correctional Facility’s Mary B. Perry High School took part in a Project Based...
The Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), in partnership with the San Francisco State University (SFSU) College of Ethnic Studies and...
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Stacy Zelenski, a teacher at California Men's Colony, is turning her love of pickleball into a rehabilitative program.
Incarcerated California Medical Facility (CMF) youth mentors recently learned about childhood trauma thanks to a bestselling author.
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For eight years, students from the Palma High School in Salinas have been part of a book club called Exercises...
This week, 25 incarcerated students at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, received bachelor's degrees from Cal State Los Angeles....
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When CALPIA employee Jeff Snoozy collapsed to the floor, incarcerated participants rushed to his aid. "Without their help, there is...
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