The short-staffed California Nevada River Forecast Center, a small Sacramento field office of the National Weather Service, ...

Neither the California State Prison, Corcoran or the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, had a robust flooding evacuation ...

The floods that year ultimately did not reach the prisons, but the threat they posed illustrated how California’s 90,000-prisoner corrections system has failed to prepare for natural disasters.

Floods Exposed Weaknesses in California Prisons’ Emergency Plans. They Still Aren’t Ready In 2023, amid record-breaking rain and snow, two prisons in the southern San Joaquin Valley faced a ...