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Prison Closures Left Small Towns Reeling. Here's How They're Coping California prison closures in Blythe and Susanville... After its prison closure was announced in 2021, Mayor Mendy Schuster said residents began...
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Newsom closed 5 prisons. What happened to the towns around them?
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 — […]
