December 7, 2008
Vacaville could get new prison facilities
The federal receiver appointed to deal with state prison crowding is making plans to build a 1,400-bed inmate medical and mental health facility on land behind Vacaville's two state prisons.
The proposed site for the facility is within prison boundaries but would require removal of some orchard farmland behind Keating Park.
A public meeting on the project, designed to gather comments on what issues should be included in an environmental review of the plan, will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Travis Credit Union Community Room, 1 Travis Way, Vacaville. It is open to the public…
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