February 14, 2009
State does in-depth review of Youth Correctional Facility
The state's corrections chief toured the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility Friday and met with a group of county leaders to discuss the site's future as officials consider consolidating and closing some juvenile facilities.
The facility on Wright Road in Camarillo, which houses juvenile female offenders, has been eyed by a federal receiver tasked with improving healthcare in California prisons as a possible site for prison hospital.
After touring the facility, a reception center in Norwalk earlier in the day and talking to wards and staff at both locations, Matthew Cate, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an interview that he wanted to meet with local community leaders "to get their ideas on how we might utilize Ventura."…
LINK - VenturaCountyStar.com
