Taft Correctional Institution
Location | 1500 Cadet Road Taft, California |
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Status | Operational |
Security class | Low-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
Population | 2187 (360 in prison camp) |
Opened | August 20, 1997 |
Closed | January 31, 2020 |
Managed by | Management and Training Corporation |
Taft Correctional Institution is a low-security federal prison for male inmates located in Taft, Kern County, California, owned by the BOP and operated by Management and Training Corporation under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. [1] It also includes a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates.
The facility opened in 1997 as the first private prison contract of the FBOP; the facility was initially operated by Cornell Corrections, which changed its name to Cornell Companies. Cornell was bought out by the GEO Group in 2010.[2] In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.[3]
In an announcement delivered to facility staff on October 1, 2019, the facility is anticipated to close as of January 31, 2020. It was estimated that the facility required about $100 million worth of repairs.[4]
Notable inmates
- Jordan Belfort
- Don Blankenship
- Tommy Chong
- Sunny Garcia
- Vic Kohring
- Rudy Kurniawan
- Dale Schafer
- Kermit Washington[5]
- James Liang[5]
- Richard Pinedo
- Justin Paperny [6]
References
- ^ "Taft Correctional Institution". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ "Historic Milestones". GEO Group. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Zapotosky, Matt (18 Aug 2016). "Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Correctional Institution will close due to infrastructure concerns, KERO-TV, October 3, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ a b BOP inmate locator,
- ^ https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2013/01/23/a-broker-who-broke-bad/?slreturn=20190723113255