Place:Susanville, Lassen, California, United States

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NameSusanville
TypeCity
Coordinates40.417°N 120.646°W
Located inLassen, California, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Lassen Cemetery
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Susanville (formerly known as Rooptown) is a town in and the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States.[1] Susanville is located on the Susan River in the southern part of the county, at an elevation of .[1] Its population is 16,728 as of the 2020 census, down from 17,947 from the 2010 census.

Susanville, a former logging and mining town, is the site of two state prisons: the California Correctional Center, a minimum-medium security facility, which opened in 1963; and the High Desert State Prison, California (not to be confused with High Desert State Prison, Nevada), which opened in 1995. The Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong is nearby, having opened in 2001.

The prisons and their effects on the community, including the addition of local jobs, were explored in the documentary Prison Town, USA (2007), aired on PBS. Nearly half the adult population of Susanville works at the three prisons in the area, where 6,000 people are incarcerated.

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