May 8, 2008
San Joaquin on track to get $80 million for expanded jail
San Joaquin County is poised to receive the full $80 million it requested from the state to expand the overcrowded jail by 1,280 beds.
The cash would come from a $750 million pot being awarded by the state through prison-reform legislation.
Counties were judged on a point system based on criteria ranging from the need for expansion to committing to host prison re-entry facilities and programs for inmates returning to their home counties.San Joaquin, Calaveras, and Amador counties all received full re-entry points because of a plan to house a regional re-entry facility for those three counties in a deactivated women's prison in Stockton…
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