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All members of the City Council were present for the meeting, including Mayor Mendy Schuster, Mayor Pro Tem Dawn Miller, and Council Members Curtis...
As California closes state prisons, rural towns like Susanville and Blythe struggle with lost jobs, shrinking populations and uncertain economic futures.
... Susanville Mayor Mendy Schuster. “Houses went up for sale. People left... The mayor of this small Riverside County desert town near the Arizona border...
California prison closures in Blythe and Susanville... After its prison closure was announced in 2021, Mayor Mendy Schuster said residents began...
About 15 years ago, the former prison towns of Blythe and Susanville were getting by relatively well. Many of towns’ residents were steadily employed by the state, and their good wages and benefits helped fuel the local, albeit isolated, economies. But after changes in California’s criminal sentencing laws led to fewer people being incarcerated — […]
