Guest commentary: Why close Chuckawalla prison when Riverside County doesn’t want the California Rehabilitation Center?
The California Rehabilitation Center, CRC Men's jail in Norco in 2012. Photo by Damian Dovarganes, AP PhotoAs Gov. Gavin Newsom moves to close at least four California prisons, local officials and state legislators are trying to convince the governor to keep Chuckawalla Valley State Prison open and instead shutter the California Rehabilitation Center in Riverside County.Robin Grundmeyer is the mayor of Norco.
“We have a system that cannot tell the difference,” he said of the state’s ability to distinguish between violent and nonviolent offenders when granting parole. Nonetheless, as Stewart put it, “we have a public that demands certainty.” Blythe is a rural community of less than 18,000 residents situated on California’s border with Arizona. Four decades ago, residents invited the state to build a prison, which became Chuckawalla Valley State Prison. The facility now employs 850 people and the families of those employees, as well as the families of prison inmates, representing the teachers, nurses, business owners and other essential workers that make up this community.
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