May 3, 2009
Rural ‘re-entry’ prison proposal may die Tuesday
Yolo County's pursuit of jail expansion funding by way of giving the state a rural site for prison construction might be dropped Tuesday with the availability of the money becoming increasingly uncertain. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to reconsider at Tuesday's meeting the county's application for the bond funds through the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR. Yolo County qualified for $30 million for an expansion of the overcrowded county jail, under Assembly Bill 900 signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in May 2007.
The board approved a private property at County Road 90 and State Route 16 near small unincorporated town of Madison to be offered to the state as a site for a prison re-entry facility. The decision, arrived at in a meeting last September, was and remains hotly contested by residents of the rural county…
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