Shasta Sheriff’s Office calls community meeting on proposed ‘Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus’ 

In a press release on Wednesday, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office notified the public of a community meeting to discuss the Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus Project. 

It’s a proposed correctional facility tentatively slated to be built off Eastside Road in Redding, not far from Haven Humane. The project was originally brought forward in response to Proposition 36, which increases legal penalties for repeat drug and theft offenses. 

An initial presentation by Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson to the county board last January focused on the idea of building an alternative custody facility at the site to expand the county’s current alternative custody program. Alternative custody refers to a system where individuals with nonserious convictions serve their sentences outside of traditional jails or prisons, allowing them to stay with their families and continue working. 

A draft contract for design of facilities at the site was unanimously approved by supervisors last November, though what exactly might be built there is still unclear. 

In previous comments to Shasta Scout, Supervisor Matt Plummer indicated that along with alternative custody, the site could be developed to include a secure housing facility for incarcerated people preparing to reenter the community from state prison as well as the county jail. He said a residential jail to replace Shasta’s aging incarceration infrastructure downtown might also be built there eventually.

The project has garnered much pushback from some members of the public. Community members who live close to the proposed location gathered in opposition to the facility last year, with many of their concerns centering around the unclear scope of the facility, as well as how the project may impact public safety and the environment in the surrounding neighborhood. 

Sheriff Michael Johnson will be at the community meeting next week to present on the project, as well as address concerns and answer questions from residents, the Sheriff’s Office wrote in the press release. 

The meeting will occur on August 5 at 5:30 p.m., and will take place at the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers, located at 1450 Court Street. 

Moe Shimizu is a student at Yale University. She’s reporting for Shasta Scout as a 2026 summer intern, with support from the Nonprofit Newsroom Internship Program — created by The Scripps Howard Fund and the Institute for Nonprofit News.

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