Camp Ben Lomond

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Camp Ben Lomond Fire Camp
www.cdcr.ca.gov/Conservation_Camps/Camps/Ben_Lomond_Y/i...

Ben Lomond Conservation Camp is located in the mountains of Santa Cruz County, approximately 12 miles from the town of Santa Cruz.

The camp is staffed with seven Correctional Officers, one Correctional Sergeant and one Camp Commander, a Correctional Lieutenant. CALFIRE staff includes a Division Chief, one Office Technician, Ten Fire Captains and one Water Tech Specialist.

Inmates committed to CDCR are selected and trained at the California Correctional Center in Susanville, California to determine their eligibility for camp. Once training is completed, eligible inmates are transported to Ben Lomond Camp. The camp houses a maximum of 113 inmates, all of whom are minimum custody male felon convicts. This population allows for five 17-man fire crews. The remaining inmates are employed by the camp as kitchen workers, porters, landscapers, launderers, clerks, mechanics, and maintenance and other support activity workers. Typically, inmates serve the last nine months of their sentence at camp, but some may serve several years of their sentence. In order to be eligible for camp, inmates cannot have any convictions for sex-related offenses, arson, escape or have a high violence potential. Most of the inmates are serving time for alcohol or drug offenses or property crimes