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About Corcoran, California
Corcoran is a city in Kings County, in the Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community was named for a railroad engineer. The City was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley a prominent land developer from southern California, took the lead in building Corcoran (the main street of the community is named in his honor). The basis of Corcoran’s economy then and now is agriculture. Initially, the most successful crops were grains, alfalfa and sugar beets.
Corcoran is most famous as the site of the California State Prison, Corcoran. It was home to notable inmates Charles Manson and Juan Corona. The California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran is a separate facility that is also located in the city. As of January 1. 2015, the two prisons held a combined total of 9,592 inmates. Inmates are counted as city residents by both the United States Census and the California Department of Finance. Thus, the incarcerated persons in the two prisons comprise just over 43% of the total population of Corcoran. The California Department of Finance estimated that Corcoran’s population was 21,960 in 2019.