September 15, 2008
Council asked to offer resolution to support re-entry facility
The Paso Robles City Council will consider tonight whether to throw its support behind the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to use the former El Paso de Robles Youth Correctional Facility as the preferred site for a 500-bed, joint re-entry facility to house inmates from San Luis Obispo, San Benito and Santa Barbara counties.
The re-entry facility, to be located at the former boys school site on the same site as a 1,000-bed medium risk facility and 80 to 200-bed fire camp, would be constructed from the ground up and house male, low-level inmates older than age 50 nearing parole. The council's approval of the conditional resolution of provisional support is tied to a separate, yet parallel issue involving jail funding for the counties who are involved in the re-entry proposal.
In order for the funding to move forward, the counties must provide the state Corrections Standards Authority a package that includes resolutions of support for the reentry sites by all the counties and the city on Thursday, Sept. 18…
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