Adelanto
January 2, 2012
Adelanto seeks 6,100-bed prisons from CDCR
Negotiating with the state to build a new prison, attracting industrial development and promoting recreation options at the city's first high school are among Adelanto's top priorities for 2012.
The city is now working up the drawings for a new prison that would be operated by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and could pour up to $5 million annually into city coffers.
The proposal is for the city to use bond or private financing to build two side-by-side facilities that house up to 6,100 inmates and staff roughly 2,000 employees. The proposed 226-acre site is in industrial area west of Highway 395 off Cassia Road, near the current San Bernardino County Adelanto Detention Center...
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September 5, 2011
New GEO private prison in Adelanto, CA
A detention center to house immigrant detainees set to open in Adelanto raises many important concerns for immigrants and their advocates in the community. While the facility could potentially keep detainees closer to their families and legal counsel, the so-called public-private partnership that produced this facility shows that immigration law isn't just a divisive political issue - it's big business.
The expansion of for-profit prisons to incarcerate non-citizens held under the government's civil, not criminal, authority is both a symptom and a cause of an increasingly criminalized and dehumanized immigration process. Immigrants who have broken no criminal laws are being held in prison-like conditions that have themselves come under scrutiny by nonprofit groups and federal agencies over the past two years...
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June 1, 2011
GEO Group, Inc. lands federal contract for 1,300 inmates in Adelanto private prison
A private management company will house up to 1,300 immigration detainees in Southern California after an agreement between the company, the city of Adelanto and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
The city approached ICE to express interest in housing a detention facility and in turn negotiated with Florida-based GEO Group Inc. to house the facility, said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.The company purchased the 650-bed facility from Adelanto last year for about $28 million and invested $22 million to renovate and retrofit it, according to company officials. A 650-bed expansion on adjacent land is expected to be complete by the end of 2012...
LINK - LATimes.com
December 16, 2010
Adelanto breaks ground on prison expansion
The next step to expand California prisons: Ground was broken Wednesday on an expansion project at the Adelanto Detention Center in San Bernardino County.
It took four years and eight shovels to finally break ground on the Adelanto Detention Center Expansion Project, a project that will eventually triple the capacity of the jail.
"Public safety is our number one priority," said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger joined local and state leaders along with law enforcement during Wednesday's ceremony...
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March 29, 2010
Adelanto sells city-prison to GEO Group, hoping for Calif, other contract
City officials said they have secured the sale of the city-owned prison to a private operator for $28 million — a move that will replenish the city’s depleted reserves but could put about 100 workers out of a job.
“This is great,” City Manager Jim Hart said Friday. “What it does is it helps temporarily relieve some of the financial pressure on the city and gives us time to now look at all the options that are available to us so that we can stabilize the city’s revenue sources.”
The sale of the city’s Adelanto Community Correctional Facility, a 650-bed prison on Rancho Road west of Highway 395, to Florida-based The Geo Group, Inc. is set to finalize on June 4, Hart said. The sale was crucial for reviving the city’s reserve funds, which had dwindled to less than $100,000...
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September 28, 2009
State approves sale of city-owned prison
State officials have approved the city's request to end its prison contract early, paving the way for a private operator to buy the city-owned prison for $28 million.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has approved canceling the state's contract for the 640-bed Adelanto Community Correctional Facility. The city-owned prison was previously slated to hold state inmates through April 2011.
Now the city-approved buyer, Florida-based GEO Group, Inc., has until January to secure a federal contract on the Adelanto facility…
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September 4, 2009
Adelanto parolee arrested following failed burglary
Sheriff's deputies nabbed a parolee suspected in a botched home burglary Wednesday in Adelanto.
Johnnie Pitchfork, 39, of Adelanto was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of burglary.
Sheriff's deputies received a report of a burglary in the 11800 block of White Avenue at 4:45 a.m. A man climbed through a back window of the home, but ran out of the house when a resident inside confronted him…
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August 14, 2009
Adelanto council approves selling prison
City Council Wednesday night approved the sale of the city-owned Adelanto Community Correctional Facility to a private corporation for $28 million — pending state permission to back out of prison contracts early.
"The state can say, 'No,' and everything we did last night is moot," Adelanto Mayor Charley Glasper said Thursday.
The unanimous vote affirms the city is "conceptually interested" in selling the prison — a 650-bed facility holding state inmates — to Florida-based The Geo Group, Inc., said City Manager Jim Hart…
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August 11, 2009
City-run prison holding CA state inmates to be sold to privateer for feds?
Grappling with depleted reserves amid a cash-flow crisis, the city is looking to sell the city-owned Adelanto Community Correctional Facility to a private corporation for $28 million.
"It would give the cash infusion that would help us be able to continue city services until we are able to get back on our feet from the economic situation," said Adelanto City Manager Jim Hart.
City officials said they are confident that the proposed sale to Florida-based The Geo Group Inc. would not result in substantial layoffs to the facility's roughly 100 employees…
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March 3, 2008
County seeks $100 million to expand Adelanto jail
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors are expected Tuesday to request funding in the amount of $100 million to help add 1,368 additional jail beds to the Adelanto Detention Center.
On May 3, 2007, the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007 became law. Among its provisions, state agencies are authorized to enter into agreements with participating counties for the acquisition, design and construction of local jail facilities.
Up to $1.2 billion is authorized by the legislation for county jail construction in two phases. In phase one, up to $750 million in funding is available through a competitive process. The board will consider a request to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Corrections Standards Authority, asking for the funds.
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February 25, 2008
Adelanto prison riot sends 22 inmates to area hospitals
When rescue personnel arrived at the medium-security federal prison, the riot was still in progress, said Schramm. Personnel treated the injured parties in a safe and secure location within the prison, said Ledesma. "We all worked together as a team to make sure all of the patients were transported where they needed to go," said Ledesma.
It is still unclear what started the trouble. Officials from the privately-run prison had no comment on the situation.
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February 25, 2008
21 injured in SoCal prison riot over the weekend
A riot at a privately run prison left more than 20 inmates injured over the weekend. Authorities say one inmate was critically hurt during Saturday's violence at the Desert View Modified Community Correctional Facility in Adelanto. The other 20 inmates suffered minor injuries and were taken to area hospitals. It wasn't clear what started the riot…
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February 24, 2008
19 injured in riot at prison in Adelanto
Nineteen people were injured Saturday in a riot at the Desert View Modified Community Correctional Facility in Adelanto, authorities said. San Bernadino County Fire Department officials said one victim suffered serious injuries and needed to be airlifted to a hospital. The others suffered minor injuries and also were taken to area hospitals, said Tim Franke, a fire dispatch supervisor.
A 2006 annual report by Boca Raton, Fla.-based The GEO Group, which owned the facility at the time, described Desert View as a medium-security prison with 643 inmates.
LINK - LATimes.com
February 11, 2008
Re-entry Facility Considered for Adalanto
The Adelanto City Council may pass a resolution Wednesday in support of becoming a site for a state department of corrections and rehabilitation re-entry facility. The facility would house inmates 12 months or less prior to their release date and would provide services to prepare them to become members of the community again, said Glen Pratt, the deputy chief of corrections and detentions for San Bernardino County…
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November 11, 2007
Privatization Updated (November 11, 2007)
An update on the true "cost" of private prisons in the United States.
Overall Privatization Issues
Nov. 5 - As Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections plans to build three more prisons, a state House bill would ensure that the state, not private companies will operate them. The bill prevents private companies from operating the new or any existing prisons in Pennsylvania.
Corrections Corporation of America
Nov. 5 - An investigation is underway at the Bay County jail Annex after nine inmates were released from the jail prior to the completion of their court-ordered drug program and then told them to come back. The Bay County Jail Annex released nine inmate's in the facilities lifeline substance abuse program, which is a 120-day program. "The county is going to put every effort to find out how this happened and make sure it never happens again," said Commissioner Mike Nelson. Warden Ponte said the mistake happened when inmate's completion certificates were printed early. "I apologize, this shouldn't have happened. We are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening in the future," said Ponte. The Bay County Jail is managed by Corrections Corporation of America.
The GEO Group
Nov. 9 - The GEO Group announced that is has signed contract amendments with CDCR extending the terms of GEO?s contracts for the management and operation of two 600-bed and one 625-bed, medium community correctional facilities located in McFarland and Adelanto for another five years. The initial per diem rate for each of the three contracts is $60.00 per inmate, subject to an annual adjustment consistent with the adjustment received by CDCR from the Legislature for publicly operated facilities. The contract amendments will take effect on December 15, 2007 and are expected to generate approximately $40 million in annual revenues.
