State Custody in Tehama
Salt Creek Conservation Camp #7 is a state prison conservation camp at 10655 Round Valley Road in Paskenta. CDCR and CAL FIRE operate it jointly. CDCR is responsible for security, supervision, care, and discipline, while CAL FIRE maintains the camp and supervises work crews. Because of that custody structure, a person leaving Salt Creek is leaving CDCR custody or moving within the CDCR system, not being released from the Tehama County Jail.
This distinction matters for every release lookup. A person can be physically housed in Tehama County while the legal record belongs to CDCR. If the person was at Salt Creek after a state-prison sentence, the relevant public search is CDCR's California Incarcerated Records & Information Search, known as CIRIS. The Tehama jail current-inmates listing is useful only if there is a separate local arrest or hold.
Salt Creek also creates a local wording problem. A family member may say the person is "in Tehama County" and expect the Sheriff's Office to have the release answer. For this camp, the county location does not control the custody record. CDCR records, CDCR case calculations, BPH information, and post-release supervision channels are the relevant systems. The county jail page becomes relevant only if the person had a distinct Tehama County Jail booking before or after the state-custody event.
Confirm a Salt Creek Release
Start with CDCR CIRIS at ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov. Search by CDCR number when available because it reduces name-match errors. If the number is not known, search by name and compare age, commitment county, admission date, and current location before treating a result as the right person.
- Open the CIRIS result and review current location, commitment county, admission date, and any Board of Parole Hearings dates or outcomes.
- Look for the California date label that applies: EPRD, MEPD, NPED, YPED, or EPED, depending on the sentence and parole-eligibility category.
- If CIRIS does not answer the question, contact CDCR or the institution records path. CDCR's Identification Unit can help with facility-location or CDCR number questions at 916-445-6713.
- After release, determine whether supervision is through CDCR DAPO parole, the Red Bluff parole office, or Tehama County Probation PRCS.
- Use Post-Release Supervision for the Tehama parole and PRCS split.
If no CIRIS result appears, do not treat that as proof of a community release. The person may be in county custody, federal custody, ICE custody, a different CDCR location, a recently changed custody status, a name variation, or a record class not displayed in the public search. The better next step is to compare the sentencing court record, CDCR number information, and any parole or PRCS contact. For a Tehama commitment, the Tehama Superior Court case can explain whether the person was sentenced to state prison, resentenced, or returned to local supervision.
CIRIS is strongest when the user has enough identifiers to avoid a wrong match. Compare age, commitment county, admission date, current location, and any BPH dates or outcomes. If the result shows a location other than Salt Creek, that may mean a transfer rather than a release. If the result shows parole or another status field, verify what that means through CDCR or the supervision agency before treating it as a final discharge.
Salt Creek Records and Contact
The official facility name is Salt Creek Conservation Camp #7. The address is 10655 Round Valley Road, Paskenta, CA 96074, and the phone number in the research is 530-833-5497. For a public release lookup, use CDCR records first rather than asking the Tehama Sheriff's Records Division to confirm a state-prison camp release.
For records beyond what CIRIS displays, CDCR or the relevant CDCR case records office is the right path. If the release changed the person's supervision status, the next point of contact may be CDCR parole or Tehama County Probation PRCS. Tehama Probation's main office is 1840 Walnut Street in Red Bluff, phone 530-527-4052; the CDCR Red Bluff parole office is listed at 10 Gilmore Road, Suite C, phone 530-529-7700.
CDCR's Identification Unit can help when the facility location or CDCR number is unknown, and the research lists that phone number as 916-445-6713. For release-date calculation or resentencing issues, the case records office connected to the assigned institution is usually more relevant than a local jail records clerk. If the person was transferred out of Salt Creek before release, the records question may follow the receiving CDCR institution rather than the camp address.
About Salt Creek Camp
CDCR describes Salt Creek as a conservation camp that provides incarcerated hand crews for fire suppression in the Tehama Glenn Unit and statewide dispatch when needed. The camp is not a county jail annex, even though it sits inside Tehama County. It is part of California's state custody and fire-camp system.
| Facility fact | Local detail |
|---|---|
| Facility type | State prison conservation camp / fire camp |
| Operating agencies | CDCR and CAL FIRE |
| Address | 10655 Round Valley Road, Paskenta, CA 96074 |
| Phone | 530-833-5497 |
Research notes that Salt Creek opened in 1987 and serves fire-suppression work connected to the Tehama Glenn Unit while also allowing statewide dispatch. Those operational details are useful because a camp participant's visible location may change with work crew movement, emergency deployment, transfer, or return to another CDCR facility. The release record still belongs to CDCR. The camp's local address helps identify the facility, but it should not be used to switch the user into a county jail release workflow.
Why the Jail Roster Misleads
The most common Salt Creek mistake is treating any Tehama County facility as a county jail facility. Salt Creek participants are in CDCR custody unless another record says otherwise. If a person leaves Salt Creek, the Tehama County Jail's current-inmates roster will not explain the CDCR release, parole eligibility, transfer, or discharge path.
Use the county jail pages only when the person had a separate Tehama County Jail booking. For a camp participant, the stronger trail is CIRIS, CDCR case records, BPH information where applicable, and the supervision agency after release. If a person walked away, transferred, returned to a parent institution, or discharged from CDCR, those are state-custody facts first.
That distinction also applies to VINE. California VINE can be useful for county jail custody notifications and some custody-change alerts, but CDCR custody after transfer has its own records and victim-services channels. A Salt Creek release should therefore be reconciled against CDCR and any parole or PRCS record. If the user only has a Tehama arrest date, begin with the county court case and jail record to see whether the person actually reached CDCR.
CDCR Dates and Credits
California does not use one universal public "projected release date" label for every state prisoner. BPH materials identify several labels: Earliest Possible Release Date for many determinate sentences, Minimum Eligible Parole Date for many indeterminate life sentences, Nonviolent Parole Eligible Date, Youth Parole Eligible Date, and Elderly Parole Eligible Date. CIRIS and BPH context should be read together when a Salt Creek search involves a future release or parole hearing.
Credits can also affect dates. CDCR materials describe Good Conduct Credit, Milestone Completion Credit, Rehabilitative Achievement Credit, Educational Merit Credit, and Extraordinary Conduct Credit. Conservation camp workers and trainees may have credit rules that differ by custody and offense category, so the public date should be verified with CDCR when timing is important.
For Salt Creek specifically, the conservation camp context can matter because CDCR credit materials include different good-conduct credit rates for some minimum custody, camp worker, and trainee categories, with violent and nonviolent categories treated differently. That does not mean every Salt Creek participant has the same credit rate. Classification, sentence type, offense category, discipline, program participation, and later court changes can all affect the displayed date. A public CIRIS date is a starting point; CDCR records are the source to use when a precise release date controls travel, notification, or supervision planning.
Parole or PRCS After Camp
After a CDCR release connected to Salt Creek, supervision may not be the same for every person. Some releases report to CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations. Others are discharged from CDCR jurisdiction to county Post Release Community Supervision, depending on the committing offense and sentence. Tehama County Probation's AB 109 material explains that PRCS offenders are released from state prison to county supervision rather than state parole when their offense category qualifies.
That means the release path may move from CIRIS to CDCR parole, the Red Bluff parole office, or Tehama County Probation's Day Reporting Center and AB 109 unit. A court record from Tehama Superior Court can also explain whether the original case produced a state sentence, a local split sentence, or later supervision conditions.
Tehama's local supervision resources give this page a specific post-release map. The county Probation Department lists its main office at 1840 Walnut Street and the Day Reporting Center / Work Release and Education Program at 780 Antelope Boulevard. CDCR lists a Red Bluff parole office at 10 Gilmore Road, Suite C. For a Salt Creek release, confirm which office actually supervises the person before sending paperwork, asking about reporting, or interpreting a missed CIRIS match as final discharge.
Transfers Before Release
A Salt Creek custody event can end without a direct community release from Paskenta. The person may be transferred to another CDCR institution, returned from camp status, moved for a hearing or medical issue, or routed to a parole or PRCS process after a final release date is reached. The public clue may be a CIRIS location change rather than a county release log. That is why the facility name, CDCR number, court case, and supervision office should be compared together.
If a Tehama County Jail record appears in the same person's history, keep it in sequence. The jail may document the local arrest, sentencing transfer, or a later local hold, while CDCR documents the state sentence and camp custody. Mixing those systems can produce the wrong answer: a person may be gone from the county jail because they were sent to CDCR, and later gone from Salt Creek because they were transferred or released through CDCR.