Ishi Releases Are CDCR
Ishi Conservation Camp #18 is located at 30500 Plum Creek Road in Paynes Creek. It is a state prison conservation camp, not a Tehama County Jail unit. CDCR and CAL FIRE operate the camp jointly, and CDCR's public materials identify camp staff and describe Ishi's role in annual Spring Training Exercise certification for hand crews.
For released-inmate research, the key point is custody authority. A person housed at Ishi is in state custody unless another source shows a separate local booking. A release, transfer, parole date, or discharge connected to Ishi should be checked through CDCR systems. The county jail's current-custody roster does not serve as a released list for CDCR camp participants.
Ishi is one of the reasons Tehama release research has to separate geography from legal custody. The person may be in Paynes Creek, have a Tehama-area facility name in a search result, and still have a state-prison release record controlled by CDCR. The correct question is not simply "what county is the facility in?" It is whether the custody authority is the Sheriff's Office, CDCR, Probation, federal custody, or another agency.
Confirm an Ishi Release
Use CDCR CIRIS at ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov as the first public state-custody lookup. A CDCR number is the best search key. If you search by name, compare age, commitment county, admission date, and current location so that a common name is not mistaken for the wrong person.
- Search CIRIS by CDCR number or name.
- Review current location, commitment county, admission date, and any BPH hearing dates or outcomes.
- For a release-date question, look for California's public date labels such as EPRD, MEPD, NPED, YPED, or EPED.
- If the person no longer appears or the result is unclear, use CDCR records, the court case, parole, or PRCS to confirm the outcome.
- Use Release Date Lookup for the difference between a county scheduled release date and CDCR eligibility dates.
If the CIRIS result does not show Ishi, that may be a transfer rather than a release. Camp participants can move within CDCR, return to another institution, appear under another location, or have a status that requires CDCR records rather than a simple public search result. If no result appears at all, consider name variation, CDCR number uncertainty, county custody, federal custody, ICE custody, or a completed discharge. Do not replace that analysis with the Tehama County current-inmates page unless there is evidence of a separate county booking.
The Tehama Superior Court record can help when the sentence began with a Tehama case. It may show whether the person was sentenced to CDCR, resentenced, ordered to probation, or given custody credits that affected later supervision. For a state-custody date, however, the court file and CIRIS answer different parts of the question: the court explains the sentence and orders, while CDCR explains facility placement, release processing, parole eligibility, and discharge from CDCR jurisdiction.
Ishi Records and Contact
The official facility name is Ishi Conservation Camp #18. The address is 30500 Plum Creek Road, Paynes Creek, CA 96075, and the phone number listed in the research is 530-597-2846. Because this is a CDCR camp, release records beyond public CIRIS results should be routed through CDCR or the appropriate CDCR records office rather than the Tehama Sheriff's adult jail records channel.
If the person has already been released, the next agency depends on supervision. The CDCR Red Bluff parole office is listed at 10 Gilmore Road, Suite C, Red Bluff, phone 530-529-7700. Tehama County Probation handles local PRCS and mandatory supervision matters from its main office at 1840 Walnut Street, Red Bluff, phone 530-527-4052.
For people who do not know a CDCR number or current facility location, the research lists CDCR's Identification Unit at 916-445-6713. That channel is more appropriate for state-custody identification than the Tehama Sheriff's Records Division. Sheriff's Records is still the right place for an adult Tehama County Jail booking or release record, but it should not be asked to prove a CDCR camp release unless the person also had a local jail event.
About Ishi Camp
Ishi Conservation Camp #18 is part of the CDCR conservation camp system in Tehama County. It is separate from the adult county jail in Red Bluff and separate from the juvenile facility operated by Tehama County Probation. Its presence in the county is why a search for Tehama County released inmates can involve a state-prison lookup even when the facility name sounds local.
| Facility fact | Local detail |
|---|---|
| Facility type | State prison conservation camp / fire camp |
| Operating agencies | CDCR and CAL FIRE |
| Address | 30500 Plum Creek Road, Paynes Creek, CA 96075 |
| Phone | 530-597-2846 |
CDCR's Ishi materials highlight hand-crew training certification, which reinforces that this is a conservation camp environment rather than a local jail unit. The work setting can make the facility familiar to Tehama residents, but the release paperwork does not convert to a county release log. When Ishi is the facility, the public record trail is CDCR first, then parole, PRCS, BPH, or court records as the facts require.
County Location, State Record
Tehama County contains two CDCR conservation camps: Salt Creek #7 in Paskenta and Ishi #18 in Paynes Creek. Both can confuse users because the person is physically in Tehama County but legally in state custody. The release workflow for both camps is CDCR CIRIS, BPH or parole information where relevant, DAPO parole, or county PRCS. It is not the Tehama County current-inmates page unless the person has a separate local jail booking.
This separation also affects release interpretation. A no-result in the Tehama jail roster does not prove an Ishi release, and a CIRIS result should not be treated as a Tehama County Jail booking. Use the facility name, CDCR number, commitment county, and court record to keep the tracks separate.
The same rule applies in reverse. A person appearing on the Tehama County Jail roster is in local custody at that point, even if the person previously had a CDCR camp history. A person appearing in CIRIS with an Ishi or other CDCR location is in the state-prison system. A person who has completed a CDCR term may need parole, PRCS, court, or CDCR records to explain the final status. Each system has a different public purpose and a different update cycle.
After Release from Ishi
After a CDCR custody release, the person may report to state parole or to county PRCS. CDCR DAPO handles parole cases, including through regional parole offices. Tehama County Probation's AB 109 material explains PRCS as the route for certain people released from state prison who are discharged from CDCR jurisdiction to county supervision rather than state parole.
That routing matters because the supervising office may be the best practical confirmation after a person is no longer in a public custody result. If the person is on CDCR parole, start with CDCR parole contacts. If the person is on PRCS in Tehama County, the Probation Department and its Day Reporting Center / AB 109 infrastructure may be the local supervision path.
Tehama's local contact map is concrete. Probation's main office is at 1840 Walnut Street, and its Day Reporting Center / Work Release and Education Program is identified at 780 Antelope Boulevard. CDCR's Red Bluff parole office is at 10 Gilmore Road, Suite C. A user trying to confirm where someone reports after Ishi should first determine whether the person is on DAPO parole, county PRCS, mandatory supervision, or no active supervision shown by the available records.
Date Fields to Read Carefully
For Ishi and other CDCR facilities, date fields are state-prison concepts. EPRD is used for many determinate release calculations. MEPD, NPED, YPED, and EPED apply to different parole-eligibility categories and can intersect with Board of Parole Hearings decisions. Credit rules, discipline, program completion, classification, and sentence changes can affect the date that appears.
For that reason, an Ishi release-date question should not be answered from a Tehama County Jail "scheduled release" field. The county field belongs to a local jail booking. Ishi release timing belongs to CDCR, BPH, the sentencing court record, and the post-release supervision agency.
CDCR credit materials identify Good Conduct Credit, Milestone Completion Credit, Rehabilitative Achievement Credit, Educational Merit Credit, and Extraordinary Conduct Credit. Conservation camp work can be relevant to credit rules, but the applicable rate depends on the person's classification, sentence, offense category, workgroup, and discipline history. If a CIRIS date changes, that can reflect credits, resentencing, a hearing outcome, classification, or another CDCR case-record adjustment. The public page should point users to the right system, not promise a fixed date from a county roster.
Transfer and Discharge Clues
An Ishi custody event can end through a transfer within CDCR before any final release to the community. The person may move to another institution, return from camp status, be transported for medical or case reasons, or proceed into release processing elsewhere. CIRIS may show the new location or status before any local user understands why the person is no longer at Paynes Creek. Treat that as a state-custody trail and verify it through CDCR.
A full CDCR discharge is different from a camp transfer, and both are different from release to parole or PRCS. BPH dates may matter for parole-eligible cases, DAPO may matter after parole release, and Tehama County Probation may matter after a PRCS release. If the original case was in Tehama Superior Court, the court file can help connect the sentence to the CDCR record, but the camp's release or transfer history remains a CDCR matter.