5225 Corrections and Rehabilitation
Program Descriptions

25 - ADULT OPERATIONS

The Department is required by statute to accept convicted felons and civilly committed non-felon narcotic addicts from California courts when their sentence is imprisonment in a state correctional facility. The objective of the Adult Operations program is to provide safe and secure detention facilities to protect society from further criminal activities and to provide necessary services such as feeding, clothing, record keeping, inmate classification assessments, and employee training.

The Adult Operations program consists of 33 operating correctional institutions, 12 of which have reception centers. The program is responsible for 13 community correctional facilities, 5 California out-of-state correctional facilities, and 47 conservation camps, which perform public conservation projects including, but not limited to, forest fire prevention, watershed management, and soil conservation. Secure Reentry Program Facilities will also be managed by Adult Operations.

The program also includes a full continuum of evidence-based substance abuse treatment, including 39 in-prison therapeutic community substance abuse treatment programs in 22 institutions.