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California Prison Industry Authority


California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) was created by Chapter 1549, Statutes of 1982 as a semiautonomous state agency to operate California's prison industries in a manner similar to private industry. CALPIA is established to:

  • Develop and operate manufacturing, agricultural, and service enterprises that provide work opportunities for inmates under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

  • Create and maintain working conditions within enterprises, as much like those which prevail in private industry as possible, to assure inmates assigned therein the opportunity to work productively, to earn funds, and to acquire or improve effective work habits or occupational skills

  • Operate work programs for inmates that are self-supporting through the generation of sufficient funds from the sale of products and services to pay all its expenses, thereby avoiding the cost of alternative inmate programming by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.