California Men's Colony (CMC) is a male-only state prison located northwest of the city of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California, along the central California coast approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
CMC has two physically separate facilities on its 356 acres (144 ha): East and West. The minimum-security West facility includes Level I ("without a secure perimeter") housing and Level II ("with secure perimet...
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California Men's Colony (CMC) is a male-only state prison located northwest of the city of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California, along the central California coast approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
CMC has two physically separate facilities on its 356 acres (144 ha): East and West. The minimum-security West facility includes Level I ("without a secure perimeter") housing and Level II ("with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage") open dormitories. The medium-security East facility has Level III ("Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage") housing "divided into four quadrangles," as well as "a fully licensed hospital" and "a Mental Health Delivery System."
As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CMC had a total of 1,870 staff and an annual operating budget of $151 million. As of September 2007, it had a design capacity of 3,840 but a total institution population of 6,512, for an occupancy rate of 169.6 percent.
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