Changing the culture of California’s prisons expected to take decades, face challenges

A $240 MILLION rehabilitation building project at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center will probably be completed by January 2026, but changing the culture in California’s prisons will take decades and could face many challenges.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Jeff Macomber and Clark Kelso, the court-appointed federal receiver for California Correctional Health Care Services, sat down for a two-part discussion about the California model on a podcast called “CDRC Unlocked.”