Claremont Custody Center (CCF Coalinga) is named after a one-room schoolhouse that used to be in the area that it resides on.

Claremont Custody Center was built in 1990 as a Return To Custody Center (RTC.) for women. Prior to opening it's doors the designation was changed to Community Correctional Facility. The first prisoners arrived in February of 1991. In 1992 the State of California decided to move the females to the women's prison in Chowchilla, CA. The facility then began housing state male inmates with less than 18 months left on their sentence.

What is a "CCF"?

A CCF (Community Correctional Facility) is a prison that is either owned and operated by a private contractor or city/county government and contracted by the state to house state inmates. This is done as a means for the state to save money because a contractor can house inmates for less money than what it would cost the state to house the same inmates.

In 1987, the Governor of California signed into law Senate Bill 1591, designed to relieve overcrowding conditions in the state prisons. The law provided for the State Department of Corrections to negotiate long term contracts with local governments to build and operate minimum security facilities for the custody of parole violators. The City of Coalinga was the first of five California cities to participate in the State programClaremont Custody Center is owned and operated by the City of Coalinga, CA. We are contracted by the State of California to house state inmates. We operate following California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation guidelines and Pleasant Valley State Prison is our hub facility.

The Center

The facility is built on approximately 10 acres of land 2 miles outside the City of Coalinga proper. The facility has approximately 569 beds in two separate housing units with an administration building between the housing units.

The housing units provide dormitory living with the two housing units divided into seven dormitories. "B" dorm is utilized for housing inmates awaiting classification and disciplinary inmates. Nine cells are available in B dorm and five cells are located in receiving and release for emergency temporary segregated housing of inmates.

The administration building contains the administrative offices, receiving and release, centralized kitchen with two dining rooms, laundry facilities, medical clinic, inmate library, visiting room and commissary. Receiving and Release processes all incoming and outgoing inmates.

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Small Recreation Yard