CDCR – Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility (SMCCF)

CDCR – Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility (SMCCF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 661-746-8900

This facility is for adult inmates.

The CDCR – Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility (SMCCF) is a correctional facility located at 1150 E Ash Ave in Shafter, CA.

Jails are locally operated short-term facilities that hold inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both, and inmates sentenced to a term of less than one year, typically misdemeanants. You may call 661-746-8900 to get information about an inmate, charges or sentencing, bail (if any) and visiting hours.

Prisons are longer-term facilities run by the state or the federal government that typically holds felons and persons with sentences of more than one year.

The Shafter Community Correctional also houses inmates arrested by this county’s municipal police departments including the Shafter Police Department.

Family and Friends of inmates are allowed to:
• Receive phone calls from the inmates,
• Provide them with commissary money
• Receive and send them mail
• Schedule a time to visit.

Convicted and Sentenced Inmates
When an inmate is convicted and sentenced to a year or more, they are transferred to the California State Prison System or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Inmates that are convicted of a misdemeanor and/or sentenced to less than one year of a state crime serve their time in the county jail.

Illegal immigrants convicted of a state or federal crime will first do their time, they may then be transferred into ICE custody for deportation.

visitation Info

CDCR – Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility (SMCCF) – Visitation

Visiting Hours and Information

• Visiting Information Phone Number: 661-746-8900, Ext. 5139
• Visiting Days: Saturdays and Sundays
• Hours of Operation: 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
• Holiday Visiting Schedule: New Year’s Day, July 4th (Independence Day), Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day

Visiting Assistance

NOTE: Visiting is conducted on a walk-in basis upon approval of a CDCR 106 Visiting Questionnaire form (first come, first served). Only approved visitors are allowed on Facility grounds. Visitors entering the Facility grounds are subject to search of their person, vehicle and/or property. The last visitor will be processed at 2:00 PM. Terminations for overcrowding will be conducted in the same manner (first come, first to be terminated). Visiting programs may be modified, terminated or suspended without notice due to institutional security needs.

Online Appointment Process

The Visitor Processing Appointment Scheduling System, known as VPASS , is an online application offered as a service to help expedite the visitation scheduling process. Approved visitors may access VPASS to schedule an appointment one week in advance. Between 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. The system will also allow the visitors to receive information about any changes to visitation via email or on the VPASS home pages. Visitors with an appointment will have precedence. Visitors who do not have an appointment may walk-in after scheduled appointment processing concludes at 12:15 or as may be available between the processing of scheduled visitors. Visitors should not arrive on the institutional grounds more than 30 minutes prior to their scheduled appointment time.