California Medical Facility

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California State Medical Corrections Facility, also known as CMF, is the state's largest prison hospital. CMF is oldest of the two prisons in Vacaville, California. It has been in operation for about 50 years. It has the First Inmate Hospice in a Prison setting in the United States. It has a section administrated by the California Department of Mental Healthin an acute psychiatrict inpatient program and is current in the process of building a "Crisis" Bed Unit. CMF has an Enhanced Out-patient Psychiatric program as well; where all levels of psychiactric care is given.

CMF has a staff of 1,686 and houses 3,278 inmates although it was designed to hold 2,315. Its annual budget is $145.1 million.

It now incarcerates well-known criminal Edmund Kemper. During the 1970's and 1980's it incarcerated: serial killer Juan Vellejo Corona, drug guru Timothy Leary, and most notably Charles Manson. While at CMF Manson gave his first notable interview on June 13, 1981 to Tom Snyder for NBC's The Tomorrow Show.