Rehabilitation
From learning job skills to earning diplomas, rehabilitation is a cornerstone of the department.
Every year from July to August, the dialogue among inmates and staff at California State Prison, Corcoran, revolves around the...
Immanuel House Institute of Higher Learning's transitional housing program spent over a year collaborating with the Division of Rehabilitative Programs...
California Correctional Institution Fire Chief Daniel Turner recently took inmate firefighter David Reeves to the Clark Training Center in Riverside...
About an hour after teaching his fellow graduates of Johanna Boss High School in Stockton the methodology of a “schoolboy...
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Calipatria State Prison inmates in Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Criminals & Gang Members Anonymous sponsored a fundraiser to benefit...
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Music plays an important rehabilitative role in many CDCR programs. At California Medical Facility (CMF), the Psychiatric Inpatient Program has...
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The description of a May 14 event at a Johanna Boss High School simply states students "at O.H. Close Youth...
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Prison staff – custody and non-custody – lead the same lives as their neighbors when not inside the walls. They...
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Six months in the making, youth, staff, and community volunteers dedicated the construction of the largest of nine community gardens...
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A 1928 report on the education, library, religious activities and women's department highlights the successes of early efforts to rehabilitate...