July 21, 2008
Opinion: “Prison facility doesn’t belong in Camarillo”
The proposed conversion of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility into a prison facility will not solely affect the farmers, schools and residents of Camarillo. The impact on the county, as a whole, will be significant and real.
A federal court approved a plan by Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso to build seven facilities throughout the state that would exclusively treat inmates with medical and mental-health problems, in order to improve California's prison healthcare system. The Ventura Youth Correctional Facility is a target site for one of these facilities, and would be filled with some of the state's highest-risk inmates, many of whom may require psychiatric care…
LINK - VenturaCountyStar.com
