Stainer named Warden at CCI
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Mike Stainer has been named Warden of the California Correctional Institution. He has served as Acting Warden since December 2010. Tehachapi News File Photo
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Jan. 17 announced the following appointment of Michael Stainer, 48, of Tehachapi, as Warden at the California Correctional Institution.
Stainer has been Chief Deputy Warden at the California Correctional Institution since 2008 and served as Acting Warden since December 2010. He has worked with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in multiple positions since 1987. Currently he is on assignment in Sacramento as Acting Associate Director of the California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
According to the press release from the Governor’s Office, the position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $129,108. Stainer is a Republican.
A Tehachapi resident since 1978, Stainer is a second generation Warden of CCI. His father, Jerry Stainer, was warden at Corcoran State Prison, 1989-91, then Warden at CCI for two years, retiring from that institution in 1993.
Stainer was 15 when his family moved from the suburbs of Sacramento to Cummings Valley when his father first went to work at the facility.
From then until he graduated from Tehachapi High School in 1981, he lived with his family in a house on the prison grounds.
He attended Bakersfield College for a year and then moved to Mammoth, where he worked in the ski industry for four years before joining the Department of Corrections, becoming an officer, sergeant, lieutenant and Correctional Counselor II at CCI.
For two years, from 2002 to 2004, he served as a Correctional Captain at the California State Prison in Lancaster, after which he returned to CCI as a Captain.
He was promoted to Associate Warden in 2005 and Chief Deputy Warden in 2008.
