How two California prisons came to exist at the edge of a ‘ghost lake’
When Tulare Lake refilled this past spring, the two state prisons located in the Kings County City of Corcoran escaped flooding thanks to the levee that surrounds the city. But how did they even come to be built in the historical lakebed, which is known to refill every few decades? That was the question asked by independent journalist Susie Cagle in a recent investigation for the non-profit newsroom The Marshall Project. In this interview with KVPR’s Kerry Klein, Cagle begins by taking us back to conversations that happened 40 years ago.
