Locate California Health Care Facility Inmates

California Health Care Facility Overview

California Health Care Facility, Stockton is operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CHCF is an active state prison medical and mental-health facility at 7707 Austin Road in Stockton. It is physically in San Joaquin County, but it is not part of Sheriff Patrick Withrow's San Joaquin County jail system, and people housed there are not found through the county WIC jail roster.

CDCR describes CHCF as a 1.4 million-square-foot, 54-building complex in South Stockton on the former Karl Holton Youth Correctional Facility site. The facility provides medical care and mental-health treatment for incarcerated people with the most severe and long-term needs. CDCR facility text describes housing and treatment for about 2,951 inmate-patients and a professional health care staff of about 2,500. Services include intermediate-level care, outpatient and inpatient mental-health services, a licensed Psychiatric Inpatient Program, acute medical and mental-health treatment, vocational programs, academic programs, and substance-abuse treatment.

CHCF houses incarcerated patients of all security levels. That means a San Joaquin County criminal case may start with a local jail booking at the French Camp jail campus, but a later state prison placement at CHCF is searched in CDCR systems. The county roster may show arrest, bail, court, or hold information while the person is in local custody. After transfer to CDCR, CIRIS is the proper public locator.

California Health Care Facility Population

CDCR's weekly TPOP report dated May 27, 2026 listed CHCF with a population of 2,396, design capacity of 2,953, staffed capacity of 2,953, and 81.1 percent occupancy. The monthly TPOP report for April 30, 2026 listed a population of 2,406 and 81.5 percent occupancy. These are state prison population figures, not San Joaquin County jail population counts.

The distinction matters for San Joaquin County inmate searches. A person at CHCF is a CDCR incarcerated patient, usually after sentencing or state correctional placement. The county's WIC system does not provide CHCF housing, parole eligibility, CDCR number, admission date, or Board of Parole Hearings information. CIRIS is the public source for those state custody fields.

Search California Health Care Facility Inmates

Use CDCR CIRIS, the California Incarcerated Records and Information Search, for a person at CHCF. CIRIS searches current CDCR custody by CDCR number or by name. A name search can be narrowed by first name, middle name, age range, and commitment county, including San Joaquin. The search result can show CDCR number, full name, age, admission date, current location, commitment counties, parole eligible date, victim notification information, and Board of Parole Hearings actions when available.

CIRIS is not an official conviction record and does not replace court records. It also does not show county jail booking numbers, local bail, arresting agency, local warrant detail, or San Joaquin County jail housing. If the person is still pretrial or recently booked after a local arrest, search WIC first. If the person was sentenced to state prison and transferred into CDCR custody, search CIRIS.

1. Open CIRIS and choose name search or CDCR number search.
2. For CDCR number search, enter the six-character state prison number when known.
3. For name search, enter last name and narrow with first name, middle name, age range, or commitment county.
4. Open the result and confirm that the current location is California Health Care Facility, Stockton.

The official CDCR CIRIS search form is the matched public locator for CHCF and other California state prison placements.

The CIRIS form is the key difference between a CHCF inmate search and a San Joaquin County jail roster search.

California Health Care Facility Contact

CHCF has its own state prison address and phone number. Mail uses a separate CDCR mailing address and must include the incarcerated person's full name and CDCR number. County jail mail addressed to the French Camp jail campus is not the correct format for a person housed at CHCF.

Visit California Health Care Facility

CHCF visitation follows CDCR rules, not San Joaquin County jail visiting rules. CDCR states that in-person visits are offered Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at adult institutions. For CHCF, in-person visit reservations may be made beginning Saturday at 8:00 AM through Monday at 8:00 AM for the proposed visit week. Scheduling routes include CDCR's Visitation Scheduling Application and the CHCFVideoVisiting@cdcr.ca.gov email route documented in research.

CDCR prison visits generally require the incarcerated person to request visitor approval and for the visitor to comply with identification, dress, search, conduct, and scheduling rules. The CDCR general visitation phone is 800-374-8474. Because CHCF is a medical and mental-health prison, housing, treatment needs, security status, or institution operations can affect whether a specific visit is available.

California Health Care Facility Mail and Money

CDCR mail and contact rules require full name, CDCR number, institution name, P.O. Box or housing if known, city, state, and ZIP. Incoming letters are opened and inspected for contraband. State prison phone calls are free as of January 1, 2023, initiated by the incarcerated person, and limited to 15 minutes. That is different from the San Joaquin County jail's Securus and commissary setup.

Money and packages follow CDCR family-resource rules. Quarterly packages must go through authorized private vendors. Deposited funds remain subject to restitution, fines, and other CDCR accounting rules. The research did not capture a CHCF-specific fee table for deposits, so no dollar fee is added here. For current vendor lists and package rules, use CDCR's family resources rather than county jail commissary instructions.

California Health Care Facility Intake

CHCF intake is a state prison placement and classification issue, not a street-arrest booking at the San Joaquin County Jail. A person usually reaches CDCR after conviction and sentencing, then enters the state prison reception, classification, medical, and mental-health placement process. CIRIS may become useful once CDCR records show the person in state custody and list a current location.

A San Joaquin County jail booking record can still be useful for the earlier phase of a case. WIC can show arrest charges, bail, court date, warrants, and housing while the person is local. Once sentenced to CDCR and placed at CHCF, CDCR number, admission date, current location, commitment county, parole eligibility, and Board of Parole Hearings details matter more than county booking fields. Court records remain the source for conviction documents.

CDCR

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state prison agency that operates CHCF.

CIRIS

California Incarcerated Records and Information Search, the statewide locator for people in CDCR custody.

Commitment county

The county tied to a state prison sentence or commitment, which can include San Joaquin.

About California Health Care Facility

CHCF adds a state-level correctional layer to San Joaquin County. The county has local jail facilities at the French Camp campus, but CHCF is a CDCR health care prison in Stockton. Current facility leadership in the research identified Acting Warden Dao Vang since May 2025 and Health Care CEO Dr. Anu Banerjee. Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy is relevant local correctional history, but CDCR deactivated that facility on September 30, 2021, so it should not be treated as an active San Joaquin facility page.

CHCF's population is below design capacity in the May 2026 CDCR TPOP figures, but the facility remains a large prison medical and mental-health operation. For search purposes, the main rule is simple: WIC is for San Joaquin County jail custody, while CIRIS is for CDCR state prison custody. For county booking details that led to a sentence, check WIC or court records first, then use CIRIS after CDCR transfer.

For local custody context before a state transfer, the San Joaquin County jail facility page explains the WIC path and French Camp jail system.