New Prison Open for Public Tours Thursday Afternoon

By KSEE News

January 19, 2012 Updated Jan 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM PDT

You can tour a new federal prison in Mendota Thursday afternoon. Up to 1,200 male inmates can be housed in the new prison. The medium security institution is scheduled to start receiving offenders in the next few weeks.

Public tours will be going on through 6:00 p.m.