February 11, 2009
Underutilized youth prison will be continuing target
It may be a bit too soon to write the obituary for the proposal to replace the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility near Camarillo with a healthcare prison for adults, but preliminary funeral arrangements seem to be in order.
The decision last week by federal prison healthcare receiver J. Clark Kelso to put a vastly scaled-down construction proposal on the table was a clear sign of retreat — an acknowledgement that the state's crippling fiscal crisis requires a more modest plan to improve the dreadful health-treatment conditions inside California's overcrowded prisons. Kelso's least-expensive option would take Camarillo out of the picture…
LINK - VenturaCountyStar.com
