June 27, 2008
Group hopes suit can block prison plan
About 140 people assembled at the Sterling Hills Golf Course Clubhouse on Thursday evening to join the Prison Hospital Action Committee, a community effort created to fight the construction of a prison hospital just outside Camarillo.
"This is a roll-up-your-sleeves, get-to-work type of meeting," said Kathi Miller, a Camarillo resident spearheading the effort.
J. Clark Kelso, a federal receiver charged with bringing California's prison healthcare system in line with the U.S. Constitution, has proposed shutting down the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility on Wright Road and replacing it with a hospital for 1,500 adult inmates with physical and psychological problems…
LINK - VenturaCountyStar.com
