Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
| Location |
San Diego County, near San Diego, California |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 32°35′05″N 116°56′00″W / 32.5846°N 116.9334°WCoordinates: 32°35′05″N 116°56′00″W / 32.5846°N 116.9334°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Medium - Maximum |
| Capacity | 2,200 |
| Population | 3,559 (161.8%) (as of 31 December 2012) |
| Opened | July 1987 |
| Managed by | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Warden | Daniel Paramo |
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJDCF or RJD) is a state prison located in unincorporated southern San Diego County, California, near San Diego. It is a part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is a 780-acre (320 ha) facility. It is the only state prison in San Diego County.
The prison is situated on a mesa about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Mexico–United States border, in the foothills of Otay Mesa overlooking the Mexican border. The Otay Mesa site is shared with four other properties related to law enforcement:
The prison cells were designed to house one person each, however, due to overcrowding, many house two prisoners each. As of March 2012, the facility's total population was 3,666, or more than of 166.6 percent of its design capacity of 2,208.
The prison includes a reception center that opened in 1989. The counties served by the center include Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego. Lt. Michael Stout, the community partnership manager of the prison, said in 2010 that the reception center mainly gets prisoners from Imperial and San Diego counties, while some prisoners come from Los Angeles and Orange counties. A male felon who is convicted and sentenced in San Diego County will not necessarily serve his sentence at Donovan.
The prison includes a housing unit for "Level 3" prisoners that was originally a gymnasium. In 1989 the gymnasium was converted. It has a capacity of 152 prisoners.
Donovan has five interfaith chapels. Each religion represented at Donovan gets a series of lockers to store materials.
The prison includes a bakery that serves the facility and five other CDCR facilities. Each day, it produces about 18,000 loaves. About 85 prisoners work in the bakery, as of 2010. During that year, the monthly salary of a prisoner working in the bakery was between $90 ($98.84 when adjusted for inflation) and $100 ($109.83 when adjusted for inflation). KPBS said that bakery jobs were "desirable" compared to clerk and custodial jobs, which pay a monthly salary between $24 and $48.
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