September 23, 2010
State promises money to keep CCF operating
The City of Taft has been promised money from the state to keep the Community Correctional Facility open after it said it would close it down before using up city general fund reserves to keep it open.
That word came on Wednesday when city officials and officials from other Kern County cities with CCCFs met with with the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation.
Taft has not been paid by the state in since April for housing inmates and reached the point where it told the CDCR it would close the facility if it didn't get money...
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