May 14, 2008
San Joaquin County gets what it needs
San Joaquin County got everything it sought for our County Jail expansion. Now it's up to us to build it and stanch the revolving-door jail operations.
The state Corrections Standards Authority said last week that the county will receive $80 million to help pay for a 1,280-bed expansion of the jail. That's everything the county asked for when state officials suggested - no, more than suggested, they said outright - state money would be forthcoming for a jail expansion if locals went along with a plan to open the shuttered women's prison as a re-entry facility for men.
Mind you, county officials were not happy about the possibility of another state prison facility here. We have more than our share. But they also were desperate for help expanding the jail, operating under a court-ordered population cap that means people who should be there are released because there is no room…
LINK - RecordNet.com
