2-09/030.50 - Pitchess Detention Center, South Facility



The South Facility houses primarily minimum to medium security prisoners.  This facility houses sentenced and presentenced inmates.  The training school for inmates assigned to the Fire Suppression Program is located at this facility.  South Facility administers the MERIT Program, which includes the Impact Program for drug rehabilitation, the Veteran’s Program, which provides skills and services to transition back into the community, and the Domestic Violence Program, which curbs domestic violence as well as other Education Based Incarceration programs.