Corrections Headlines

Re-entry prison plan at former Paso Robles boys school gets bigger

Discussion of whether to put a re-entry prison on state-owned land in Paso Robles is heating up again as corrections officials consider a new round of grant funding, and such a facility could be twice as large as previously proposed.

Sheriff's Department officials in Santa Barbara County now want to be part of a 500-bed re-entry prison that would be located in Paso Robles.

A previous proposal for the Paso Robles site called for a 250-bed facility to house inmates from San Luis Obispo and San Benito counties (50 of them would be from San Benito)…

LINK - SanLuisObispo.com