Valley State Prison for Women
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The Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) is a female-only state prison in California, USA.
It was opened in April of 1995 on a 640-acre site in the San Joaquin Valley and was designed to hold up to 1,980 inmates. It is now one of the largest women's prisons in the world, with approximately 3,700 prisoners and nearly 1,000 staff.
Valley State is the smaller of two women's prisons near Chowchilla, south of Merced in central California (the other being Central California Women's Facility).
VSPW functions as a reception center, serves as a general population institution providing education and vocational programming for inmates, and as a Special Housing Unit for those inmates needing higher management care. VSPW is designed as the hub for female inmates with mobility impairment.
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