September 10, 2008
Other counties counting on Paso facility
Officials from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and San Benito counties will go before a state prison review panel Sept. 18 to convince the state to fund the construction of a tri-counties "prisoner re-entry facility" in Paso Robles.
The idea behind the facility is to address the high rate at which released state prisoners commit new crimes. The facility would offer drug treatment and job training, for example
If the project gets built, all three counties would receive millions of dollars in conditional grants from the state to subsidize local jail projects…
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