As of January 1, 2021, California imprisons 162,926 of its people, according to cdcr.ca.gov.
Public Policy Institute of CA: "About 15,000 additional inmates are not counted in the institutional population because they are housed in camps or in one of the eight contract facilities that the state does not own. Four contract facilities are privately operated; three are publicly operated by the cities of Delano, Shafter, and Taft; one is privately owned but operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. By June 2019, all of the prisoners formerly housed out of state—more than 10,000 in 2011—had been returned to facilities in California." Kern County contains 27 carceral institutions and sits at the epicenter of the state's private prison boom of the past four decades, as documented most notably by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Y. Davis.
In December 2020 the CA Department of Justice concluded its five-year investigation of the Kern County Sheriff's Office, brought to international attention in a 2015 Guardian article as the deadliest police force per capita in the country. The Justice Department found the Kern County Sheriff's Office did indeed violate constitutional rights, and these findings are detailed in a complaint filed in Kern County Superior Court. Despite documentation of systematic abuse and corruption, the County Board of Supervisors voted to increase the KCSO budget in the upcoming year, from $230 million to $242 million (see page 144 here). The state of California has pledged to sign no more private prison contracts and to close all for-profit facilities by 2028. The CDCR has a proposed budget totaling $13.4 billion in 2020-21 with $13.1 billion General Fund dollars and $306.5 million in other funds. You can read more about the state budget here. The 2021 budget for DHS under President Biden is $49.8 billion, including $3.1 billion to ICE for 60,000 detention beds (more at www.dhs.gov).
According to investors.geogroup.com, GEO made a total revenue of $1.77 billion during the first nine months of 2020, when much of the art in the exhibition was made.
Public Policy Institute of CA: "About 15,000 additional inmates are not counted in the institutional population because they are housed in camps or in one of the eight contract facilities that the state does not own. Four contract facilities are privately operated; three are publicly operated by the cities of Delano, Shafter, and Taft; one is privately owned but operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. By June 2019, all of the prisoners formerly housed out of state—more than 10,000 in 2011—had been returned to facilities in California." Kern County contains 27 carceral institutions and sits at the epicenter of the state's private prison boom of the past four decades, as documented most notably by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Y. Davis.
In December 2020 the CA Department of Justice concluded its five-year investigation of the Kern County Sheriff's Office, brought to international attention in a 2015 Guardian article as the deadliest police force per capita in the country. The Justice Department found the Kern County Sheriff's Office did indeed violate constitutional rights, and these findings are detailed in a complaint filed in Kern County Superior Court. Despite documentation of systematic abuse and corruption, the County Board of Supervisors voted to increase the KCSO budget in the upcoming year, from $230 million to $242 million (see page 144 here). The state of California has pledged to sign no more private prison contracts and to close all for-profit facilities by 2028. The CDCR has a proposed budget totaling $13.4 billion in 2020-21 with $13.1 billion General Fund dollars and $306.5 million in other funds. You can read more about the state budget here. The 2021 budget for DHS under President Biden is $49.8 billion, including $3.1 billion to ICE for 60,000 detention beds (more at www.dhs.gov).
According to investors.geogroup.com, GEO made a total revenue of $1.77 billion during the first nine months of 2020, when much of the art in the exhibition was made.