Description of Facility
Correctional Institution for women sits on 120 acres and houses up to 2,392 female inmates of all custody levels, from level I to level IV. This facility also provides inpatient and outpatient mental health services.
Inmates have a variety of programming available to them depending on their security level. Substance abuse programs, pre-prelease programs and vocational programs are all provided to inmates including a pre-forestry and camp training. Inmates at this facility can be selected to join the female firefighters who work out of the conservation camp.
Those incarcerated can work for the prison industry authority manufacturing clothing, bedspreads, and firefighting clothing, as well as a construction industry.
Inmates at California Institution for Women are allowed the following through the mail:
As of January 1, 2023 all calls made by inmates are free of charge.
To send money to an inmate incarcerated in California you will need their current location and their CDCR number.
Find an inmate's CDCR number, current location, and sentencing information by searching the 
You must have an approved visitors application on file before you can attend a visit. You must request from the inmate CDCR Form 106. This is the California Visiting Questionnaire form and it must be signed by the inmate before you can fill it out and send it back to the facility at the inmate mailing address and add: "Attention: Visiting".
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