November 11, 2009
Editorial: “Keep public’s safety uppermost”
Officials from Chino and Chino Hills have protested state plans to house mentally ill prisoners at the California Institution for Men since 2005, when a proposal surfaced to build a facility for 1,500 such inmates at the Chino prison complex.
Three months ago, Mayors Dennis Yates of Chino and Peter Rogers of Chino Hills expressed public safety concerns about the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's plan to convert the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino to a prison for 1,200 adult inmates.
Now the Corrections Department's plans are in writing in the form of a detailed long-range plan filed with a federal district court to provide new medical and mental health treatment beds under a court order…
LINK - SBSun.com
