[UPDATE: We Got the Answer] What’s This? Curious Folks Want to Know

Bus with Law enforcement

Photos taken from inside the mini-mall behind the clock in Garberville.

At approximately 9:30, this bus pulled up in front of the clock in Garberville. Two men who look like official law enforcement (as opposed to a private security company employees) can be seen. One is driving. One gets off for a short time but only appears to check the luggage for a short time. About 20 to 30 people are on the bus. There is what looks like an official seal and the zip code CA 90017 (which is LA) on the side.

Do you have any clues? We’re sourcing the collective hive mind. Us curious cats want to know.
Bus with Law enforcement Bus insignia
UPDATE 10:13 a.m.: That was fast. We got the answer already. This is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation transport probably taking inmates to another prison. See here for photos of the bus program.

http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/photo-galleries/cdcr-transportation-unit-2/

 

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Happens Everyday In White Vans
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Happens Everyday In White Vans
7 years ago

They are likely taking prisoners to Pelican Bay.

Old Thymer
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Old Thymer
7 years ago

Bus is facing south, like it got off at the northern southbound exit. Seems the lucky prisoners have left Pelican Bay. Any facility south has got to be better!

M
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M
7 years ago

My thoughts exactly!

Crescent city
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Crescent city
7 years ago

Definitely PELICAN BAY. I SEE IT TWICE A WEEK, ALL YEAR LONG.

hydesville
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hydesville
7 years ago

Looks like one of the buses that give prisoners down south a free ride to Bay to Pelican.

Young Sav
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Young Sav
7 years ago

It’s prison transport.

Hugo
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Hugo
7 years ago

That’s the prisoner transport bus next stop Con Camp

Gary
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Gary
7 years ago

It’s a California prison bus making its appointed rounds. The CA number is not a Zip code, it’s A California department of transportation number.

Suzanne Van Meter
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Suzanne Van Meter
7 years ago

This is a Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation transportation bus.
The CA number on the side has nothing to do with a zip code. It is the California identifier for motor carriers. You might notice them on the sides of dump trucks, heavy duty pick ups, water trucks, etc.
This bus transports inmates between institutions, conservation camps, and other CDCR facilities.

Ernie Branscomb
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Ernie Branscomb
7 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Jeeze Kym… I’m surprised that you didn’t know that. You should come to town more often.

One of those transport buses crashed near Richardson Grove a few years ago. There was total security before medical help. When you are in prison you are chattel. You left your rights as a human being back before the crimes you committed. Don’t EVER give the law a handle on you.

Bobby G
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Bobby G
7 years ago

The best way to do that is not do illegal shit in the first place…

G-ma
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G-ma
7 years ago

Yep,saw alot of these when I worked at humboldt petroleum . prison bus!!

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7 years ago
Reply to  G-ma

I saw one behind the truck stop in Eureka soon after Pelican Bay opened for business. They had a flat and pulled in behind and out of sight. The bathrooms were full and I had to pee, so I went haulin ass around the corner and there was the bus. A guard holding a Mini-14 drew a bead on me and I halted. The guy never did smile and waved me on my way with the muzzle. I always wondered who all was on there.

Michelle Steele
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Michelle Steele
7 years ago

That’s a funny looking prison Bus. All the one’s I have seen come through my area up north further usually have Bars across all the side windows. Just saying this does not look like a Prison Bus to me.

G-ma
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G-ma
7 years ago

Check out the pictures on link below the story.their are wire like cages inside the bus.and they are handcuffed,and leg irons with locks on the floor.idk if these guys were locked down or not.

Michael
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Michael
7 years ago

The short distance ones have external window bars, the long distance ones have the bars inside for a more discreet appearance.

Michelle Steele
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Michelle Steele
7 years ago

Mabye it is for the filming of a movie there doing in Eureka. I am not disclosing the location tho, sorry

DJDalton
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DJDalton
7 years ago

Could be dropping them off somewhere.

Marie
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Marie
7 years ago

Prison transport. Every time I see one I say a quick prayer for those on board and their families. I pray that their broken spirits and dreams long lost not prevent them from healing. I am generally very “Unreligious” but I feel compelled to send some hope into the Universe.
Every person on that bus was once a child with the world ahead of them and each one has a family that is suffering for them- and with them.

jayne dough
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jayne dough
7 years ago
Reply to  Marie

agree!

spam
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spam
7 years ago

Wow! The contractors finally upgraded their vehicles!

Nimby
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Nimby
7 years ago

They stop at my coffee shop in Eureka sometimes. All the prisoners have to wait on the bus while the driver sits at a table inside and sips on a double white mocha.

Crescent city
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Crescent city
7 years ago
Reply to  Nimby

BULLSHIT you liar.

humboldt dad
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humboldt dad
7 years ago

These transport buses come through regularly. Transporting convicts from one prison to another or if they have upcoming court dates they transport them from prison to the courthouse.

M
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M
7 years ago

Supposed law abiding citizens in SoHum are awfully paranoid. from confronting the mail delivery man with a loaded firearm and alerting all of SoHum to your suspicious Amizon delivery to speculating the presence of a southern facing inmate correctional bus, it’s becoming an ongoing real life comedy.

jayne dough
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jayne dough
7 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Can anyone be courteous when they reply to a comment? Kym has sooo many things going on…MAYBE she was busy when one was near, and hadn’t wondered before! So easy to have a disrespectful reply! Thank you to peeps replying nicely! I only knew they were prisoner transport, because an ex prisoner told me years ago! IT IS OKAY TO BE NICE AND RESPECTFUL!!!!!!! Just sayin’!

towmotor
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towmotor
7 years ago

at one time it was called bluebird and it is quite different than the greyhound, for one you just cant get up and use the john. your shackled to the bench seats upon sitting down. If your a pc protective custody or high risk offender level 4 your put in a cage like a monkey. Given CDC calif. dept. corrections has 33 facilities and you get sentenced like from Humboldt everyone goes to a reception intake prison which would be san quentin.
Sad thing to note (besides your sentence) it is much like a greyhound , if you serve your time in ironwood which is the farthest south prison versus pelican bay, you will stop at every jail , prison within that route

Crescent city
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Crescent city
7 years ago
Reply to  towmotor

You are absolutely correct. My friend.

A supporter but not a fan
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Prison Bus… They have to stop and swap out drivers after they’ve reached their maximum hours (They keep logs just as the commercial drivers do). They stop at prisons, not jails (Tri-County transports inmates from Humboldt County to San Quentin or DVI, tho on occasion they will stop at the bigger jails, like Los Angeles). There are cages in the front for either protective custody or problem inmates (some bound and gagged, faces covered with masks to prevent spitting). A cage is in the back of the bus, housing the “gunner” – He has his own private bathroom, and a private entrance from the outside of the bus – no door from that rear cage enters into the inmate area. Depending on the length of the trip, two to three officers ride in the front (one will always be a sergeant), one or all carrying a sidearm. A single bathroom for the inmates is on the back of the bus; while the bus will stop for staff to eat, inmates will be issued a single bag lunch during the stop (no water or other beverages). Inmates are handcuffed, which is fed through a belly chain (the handcuffs are on a longer chain than regular handcuffs; they can reach their mouth and scratch their nose, but that’s about it) and are wearing ankle shackles (but are in no way fastened to the bus). With seating for up to 31 inmates, the rides are very quiet.

You can see more images at http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/gallery/cdcr-transportation-unit-2/

Michael
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Michael
7 years ago

Very true. Tri-County Extraditions uses smaller vans with metal seats to transport people to and from County jails, rather than this bus, that goes to each State Prison…Neither one is a nice ride…

Melissa Bradley
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Melissa Bradley
7 years ago

I see them every week on the road sometimes even twice a week. My understanding is that they pick up from the county jail those that have been given prison time and transport them to San Quentin where they are processed and from there then transported to whatever prison they will do their time in.

Fred Sanford
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Fred Sanford
7 years ago

Least they didn’t drop anybody off. Too bad they weren’t making a pick up! Haulin away a bus load of trouble makers might mellow the G-ville out. For a while.

W
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W
7 years ago

It’s a “new” prison transport bus. I saw the usual one broken down on the side of the highway the other week. I’ve see the bus all the time for past 2 decades.

Bobby G
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Bobby G
7 years ago

In the early days they used to just drop the prisoners let out of Pelican Bay at the Greyhound bus station in Crescent City with a bus ticket home and a $100. You would see them in Arcata wandering around looking dazed, tatted up with their face and neck tattoos, back in the world and not yet adjusted. Fortunately, our local lawmakers prevailed on the state to transport them back to where they live before releasing them.

I have to wonder if the reason we have so much hard core crime up here now is because of those prison buses, the prisoners looking out as they’re driven through wondering about the territory their gang can take over when they get back out. Or maybe it was their family members coming up to visit them and seeing all the opportunity to move in and take over.

Pelican Bay is the worst thing to ever happen as far as bringing crime to our area. The pot trade was the honey, the prison brought the flies.