Central California Women's Facility

Central California Women's Facility is a female-only California Department of Corrections state prison located in Chowchilla, California. It is across the road from Valley State Prison. CCWF prison is the largest female correctional facility in the United States, and houses the State of California's death row for women.FacilitiesCCWF covers. As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CCWF had a total of 1,205 staff and an annual operating budget of US$138 million. As of March 2012, the facility's total population was 2,836, or more than 141.5 percent of its design capacity of 2,004.CCWF holds prisoners at almost all security levels: Reception Center (RC) – provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmatesLevel I through Level IV are all housed together inside a 32-room housing unit. There are 256 inmates of all levels housed together with only three Correctional Officers. On the Reception Yard there are 276 inmates per housing unit of unclassified inmates supervised by only two officers. Condemned (Cond) housing – holds inmates with death sentences The prison provides inmate academic education, work and vocational training, counseling and specialized programs for the purpose of successful reintegration into society.TransMetro provides bus transportation to CCFW. The Chowchilla Family Express previously provided transportation for family members from major California cities to visit prisoners at the facility until its closure on June 30, 2014.