I drive on I-5 in California, and the exit signs posts if there is a jail, state mental hospital, prison, detention center at that particular off ramp. Is there a policy where this is required? Why are incarceration centers posted on freeway exits?
edit: Can you please cite a policy that requires these detention centers to be posted? Is it a federal policy or a California State policy?
Because non-incarcerated people need to go there too? Visitors, new employees, picking up someone being released, protesting wrongful detention, etc. And also the thing about hitchhikers the other person said.
So you won’t pick up escapees hitchhiking.
I’ve seen some prisons with warnings that say “don’t pick up hitchhikers; may be prisoners” but not at most of the places with the freeway sign. Also they note detention centers. I think there must be some policy that mandates the sign.
This is the correct answer.
You’ll also notice many signs warning you of picking up hitchhikers in the same area.
For people who want to visit someone in those facilities, perhaps.
But there are lots of places that people would like to visit. It’s not like they post libraries, or other government run facilities on freeways. Is there a policy that requires these types of facilities be displayed on the freeway exit sign? I tried to google it without finding the answer I was looking for.
To mark where it is for anyone who needs to to there. Maybe so you are also aware to not pick up hitchhikers in the area, as they may be escapees.
Is this common? I have never noticed a sign for a jail.
It’s possible it’s a California State level policy.
I’ve only noticed them at the prisons that are out in bummfuck Cali. Off the 5 in the Central Valley, like OP said, or out in the desert off the 10.
