Claremont Custody Center
Claremont Custody Center (CCF Coalinga) is named after a one-room schoolhouse that used to be in the area that it resides on. Claremont Custody Center was built in 1990 as a Return to Custody Center (RTC.) for women. Prior to opening its doors, the designation was changed to Community Correctional Facility. The first prisoners arrived in February of 1991. In 1992 the State of California decided to move the females to the women's prison in Chowchilla, CA. The facility then began housing state male inmates with less than 18 months left on their sentence.
A CCF (Community Correctional Facility) is a prison that is either owned and operated by a private contractor or city/county government and contracted by the state to house state inmates. This is done as a means for the state to save money because a contractor can house inmates for less money than what it would cost the state to house the same inmates.
The City of Coalinga was the first of five California cities to participate in the State Program Claremont Custody Center is owned and operated by the City of Coalinga, CA. We are contracted by the State of California to house state inmates. We operate following California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation guidelines and Pleasant Valley State Prison is our hub facility.