In-Prison Services
State of California
Since our inception, we have worked on criminal justice reform and recidivism reduction. We were involved in changing California’s three strikes laws. Currently, we operate within 19 prisons throughout California where we help incarcerated men and women prepare for release. A 1998 study by Lowe and Wexler found that Amity students who received in-prison and after-care treatment reduced their chance of recidivism by nearly 50%.
Every year we help thousands of individuals begin to rebuild their lives. Students receive substance abuse recovery and education, mental health care, workforce training, job placement, and housing when possible to help them recover from past traumas and the root causes that led to incarceration.
"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
CA. Institutions of Women
(CIW). Frontera, CA.
CA. Réhabilitation CEnter
(CRC). Corona, CA.
CA. Institution for Men
(CIM). Chino, CA.
CA. Correctional Institution
(CCI) Tehachapi, CA.
CA. City Correctional
(CAC). California City, CA.
CA, State Prison Lancaster
(LAC). Lancaster, CA.
North Kern State Prison
(NKSP) Delano, CA.
Kern Valley State Prison
(KVSP) Delano, CA.
Substance Abuse Training Facility
(SATF) Corcoran, CA.
CA. State Prison Corcoran
(CSP). Corcoran, CA.
CA. State Prison Wasco
(WSP). Corcoran, CA.
CA. Men's Colony
(CMC) San Luis Obispo, CA.
Valley State Prison
(VSP). Chowchilla, CA.
Central CA. Women's Facility
(CCWF). Chowchilla, CA.
Pleasant Valley State Prison
(PVSP). Coalinga, CA.
Avenal State Prison
(ASP). Avenal, CA.
Salinas Valley State Prison
(SVSP). Soledad, CA.
CA. Training Facility
(CTF). Soledad, CA.
New Prison Youth Offender Program
(YOP)
Valley State Prison
Chowchilla, 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.
