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Folsom State Prison (FSP), Represa CA
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California adult institution operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CDCR code: FSP.
Background
Folsom California State Prison is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of the state capital of Sacramento. It is one of 34 adult institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons. It has been the execution site of 93 condemned prisoners.
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Capacity
2,469
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Facility profile
Operator
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
CA
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Compared to other facilities in United States
3276 peersData completeness
60%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- CDCR facility — Folsom State Prison (FSP), Represa CA
- CDCR Facility Locator
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — Facility Locator — State of California
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.