April 4, 2010
Fed Receiver, Locals (in Stockton) Just Keep Pounding Away At Each Other
"We're equally frustrated that it's taken us this long to get to this situation," J. Clark Kelso, the federal prison receiver, said last week.
Kelso and Brett Morgan, chief of staff of the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, met with The Record's editorial board a few days after the board met with local officials who have litigation pending against the project.
They wanted to give their side of the medical prison impasse. About 10 days ago, the board, of which I am a member, met with about eight officials from the city of Stockton and San Joaquin County who came in to discuss the 1,734-bed inmate medical facility proposed for the shuttered Karl Holton Youth Correctional Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility on Arch Road, east of Highway 99 and southeast of Stockton...
LINK - Recordnet.com
