San Joaquin Facility / Hiring has begun for 2,400 jobs

Hiring has begun to fill 2,400 positions at the soon-to-open prison hospital in southern San Joaquin County. Most of those jobs will go to folks with medical training, and current or recently laid-off state employees are expected to snag many of them.

Nevertheless, the California Health Care Facility, Stockton, will bolster employment and revenue in the Northern San Joaquin Valley for decades to come.

The 400-acre compound southeast of Stockton is just off Highway 99 and about 15 miles north of the Stanislaus County border.

The state has spent $900 million and two years building the massive prison medical facility, which it expects to complete in May. The first of 1,722 inmates are scheduled to move in in July.

Those prisoners will be convicted felons who have chronic medical or mental health problems. To provide them around-the-clock treatment, the state expects to spend about $220 million per year on employee salaries and benefits.

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