California City Prison, California

The California City Correctional Facility, built and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, opened in 1999, one the state’s first major private prisons. It has a capacity of more than 2,000 prisoners, and housed federal inmates until 2013, and state inmates after that until 2023, then closed in 2024. It opened again in 2025 as the California City Immigration Processing Center, one of a half dozen federal detention centers in Southern California, holding around 7,000 detainees, around 1,300 of them here (as of February, 2026). The Corrections Corporation of America was renamed CoreCivic, in 2016, and is one of the largest private prison companies in the US, with dozens of facilities, in several states.