California State Prison, Solano (SOL) is a male-only

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located in the city of

Vacaville Vacaville is a city located in Solano County, California, United States. It is located from Sacramento, California, Sacramento and from San Francisco, it is on the edge of the Sacramento Valley in Northern California. The city was founded in ...

Solano County, California Solano County () is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 453,491. The county seat is Fairfield, California, Fairfield. Solano County comp ...

, adjacent to

California Medical Facility California Medical Facility (CMF) is a male-only state prison medical facility located in the city of Vacaville in Solano County, California. It is older than California State Prison, Solano, the other state prison in Vacaville. Facilities ...

. The facility is also referenced as Solano State Prison, CSP-Solano, and CSP-SOL.California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California's Correctional Facilities.
6 March 2011.

Facilities

SOL's include the following facilities, among others: * Level II housing: Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage * Level III housing: Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage

Population and staff

As of fiscal year 2006/2007, SOL had a total of 1,308 staff and an annual operating budget of $158.4 million. As of February 2011, it had a design capacity of 2,610 but a total institution population of 5,050, for an occupancy rate of 193.5 percent.California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Monthly Report of Population as of Midnight February 23, 2011.
/ref> As of July 31, 2022, SOL was incarcerating people at 124.7% of its design capacity, with 3,255 occupants.

History

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The California State Prison at Solano opened in August 1984.Furillo, Andy. "Prison boom fades. As the building grinds to a stop, officials grapple less with housing criminals and more with figuring out how to return them to society." ''Sacramento Bee'', July 12, 2004. SOL was overseen by the warden of

until January 1992, when a separate warden was assigned. By 1998, SOL was so crowded that "emergency triple bunks" were added. In 2008/2009 triple bunking was removed and the gyms by August 2009 were not holding inmates. A 2001

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ruling and a 2002 U.S. Court of Appeals decision supported the "right of

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inmates" at SOL "to attend regular weekly religious services and wear beards in accordance with their faith".

Notable inmates (current or former)

William Ray Bonner William Ray Bonner (March 28, 1948 - January 4, 2022) was a former service station attendant who went on a shooting spree through the South Side area of Los Angeles, California, on April 22, 1973, killing six people and wounding nine others. The ...

(born 1948), spree killer *Anthony Jacques Broussard (born c. 1965), murderer of Marcy Renee Conrad * Spoon Jackson (born 1957), poet *

Sanyika Shakur Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 – June 6, 2021), *Johnny Spain (born 1949), member of the

San Quentin Six The San Quentin Six were six inmates— Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo Pinell, Johnny Spain, Willie Tate, and Luis Talamantez—at California's San Quentin State Prison who were charged with criminal actions related to an August 21, 1971 esca ...

; paroled in 1988 * James Tramel (c. 1967), Episcopal priest convicted of murder; was paroled by

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in 2006 *

Anthony Wimberly Anthony Rene Wimberly (né Lee; born October 26, 1962) is an American criminal and serial killer. Between December 1984 and January 1985, he murdered three women in Oakland for the purpose of robbery, as well as raping a 12-year-old girl. After h ...

(born 1962), serial killer; sentenced to three years for burglary and robbery; paroled in 1983. Currently at

Mule Creek State Prison Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) is a California State Prison for men. It was opened in June 1987, and covers located in Ione, California. The prison has a staff of 1,242 and an annual operating budget of $157 million. As of July 31, 2022, MCS ...

. * Jarad Nava, from ''They Call Us Monsters'' paroled in 2020

References

External links

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Solano State Prison Information from Ex-Inmates
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