Inmate who walked away from Chamberlain Creek Conservation Camp apprehended in Vallejo

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Special Agents from the Office of Correctional Safety and Special Services Unit have apprehended a minimum-security inmate who walked away from the California Correctional Center Chamberlain Creek Conservation Camp in Mendocino County on Friday.

At 5:35 p.m. Monday, agents took inmate Jonathan Washington into custody in Vallejo.

Washington will be transported to the California Correctional Center in Susanville, and will no longer be eligible to be housed in a Conservation Camp.

He was committed to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Dec. 28, 2018, from Kings County to serve a three-year, eight-month term for vandalism and corporal injury on a specific persons resulting in traumatic condition. He was scheduled to parole in March 2020.

Since 1977, 99 percent of all offenders who have left an adult institution, camp or community-based program without permission have been apprehended.