In-Prison Services
State of California
Amity Foundation believes healing begins inside each person. Our vision is to transform carceral structures like prisons, jails, and detention centers into places where proven methods are used to support incarcerated people on the path to habilitation and recovery. Through our in-prison programs, we connect with incarcerated individuals – building community by creating space to confront trauma. We lead with an approach that recognizes past trauma and centers on the idea that everyone has the capacity for growth, connection, and transformation regardless of their background or the choices that led them to prison.
Amity Foundation works inside every California state prison, providing therapeutic communities and reentry programs that give people the tools to build a new life after incarceration. Research shows Amity’s programs cut recidivism in half, turning second chances into stronger families and safer communities.
Every year we help thousands of men and women in California prisons rebuild their lives, supporting their journey on the path to recovering from past traumas and the root cause that led to their incarceration.
Through our partnership with the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Amity Foundation provides in-prison education and rehabilitation programs that lay the groundwork for lasting change. Starting reentry preparation inside leads to stronger outcomes – fewer people returning to prison.
"It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no person, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow human."
-Toussaint Louverture
Prison Campuses
Pelican Bay State Prison
(PBSP) Crescent City, CA.
High Desert State Prison
(HDSP) Susanville, CA.
Folsom State Prison
(FSP) Represa, CA.
California State Prison, Sacramento
(SAC) Represa, CA.
California Medical Facility
(CMF) Vacaville, CA.
California State Prison, Solano
(SOL) Vacaville, CA.
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center
(SQ) San Quentin, CA.
Mule Creek State Prison
(MCSP) Ione, CA.
California Health Care Facility
(CHCF) Stockton, CA.
Sierra Conservation Center
(SCC) Jamestown, CA.
Central California Women’s Facility
(CCWF) Chowchilla, CA.
Valley State Prison
(VSP) Chowchilla, CA.
Correctional Training Facility
(CTF) Soledad, CA.
Salinas Valley State Prison
(SVSP) Soledad, CA.
Pleasant Valley State Prison
(PVSP) Coalinga CA
California State Prison, Corcoran
(COR) Corcoran, CA.
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
(SATF) Corcoran, CA.
Avenal State Prison
(ASP) Avenal, CA.
North Kern State Prison
(NKSP) Delano, CA.
Wasco State Prison
(WSP) Wasco, CA.
Kern Valley State Prison
(KVSP) Delano, CA.
California Men’s Colony
(CMC) San Luis Obispo, CA.
California Correctional Institution
(CCI) Tehachapi, CA.
California State Prison, LA County
(LAC) Lancaster, CA.
California Institution for Men
(CIM) Chino, CA.
California Institution for Women
(CIW) Corona, CA.
California Rehabilitation Center
(CRC) Norco, CA.
Ironwood State Prison
(ISP) Blythe, CA.
Calipatria State Prison
(CAL) Calipatria, CA.
Centinela State Prison
(CEN) Imperial, CA.
RJ Donovan Correctional Facility
(RJD) San Diego, CA.
A Note from Wayne Garcia, Senior Advisor of Recidivism Reduction
It gives me great pleasure to work with such a great set of leaders such as our Project Directors at each prison campus along with the three fantastic and dedicated regional directors from each region. The commitment and dedication that the TEAM provides daily is beyond words that can ever describe. The passion and integrity at each of the nineteen prison campuses are of the highest excellence and the bar is still not high enough as each day the TEAM strives to raise that bar a little higher.
Centers of Excellent is an ongoing process.In addition, we are so proud that we have been able to bring on to our campuses, faculty with learned experience and that (themselves) have gone through the Offenders Mentors Certification Program (OMCP) and now these faculty are giving back to the students we serve. What a beautiful experience to witness this daily.
I like to thank Amity CEO Doug Bond on continuing forward to obtain these new contracts with the passion that he has so that we all have the ability to teach other women and men that by trusting and believing in the Amity Community, that their history will never have to be their future. Amity Foundation is making a positive mark and difference in the criminal justice community across all of California.
