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High Desert State Prison (HDSP), Susanville CA
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California adult institution operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CDCR code: HDSP.
Background
High Desert State Prison (HDSP) is a high-security state prison that houses level IV inmates located in Leavitt in Lassen County, California. Opened in 1995, it has a capacity of 2,324 persons. As of January 31, 2023, High Desert was incarcerating people at 101.6% of its design capacity, with 2,362 occupants.https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2023/02/Tpop1_d2301.pdf A second prison facility, the Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong, is also located within Lassen County, California.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1995
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1995
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
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Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- CDCR facility — High Desert State Prison (HDSP), Susanville 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.