$300 MILLION JAIL SYSTEM FIX PROPOSED COUNTY PLAN CALLS FOR BOND MEASURE.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials proposed Thursday spending up to $300 million to fix long-standing problems in the sprawling jail system by boosting the sheriff's budget, reopening three jails and placing a bond measure on the November ballot. Under the plan, facilities that would be reopened include the South Facility at Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
Still, while Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive David Janssen recommended giving Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. an extra $130 million next fiscal year - including $45 million to fix problems in the jails - it was far less than the $547 million Baca had requested. Janssen said a prime factor behind recent jail rioting is the facilities themselves - which have only 2,875 high-security cells for 5,000 to 7,000 high-security inmates. ``(Baca) simply has no place to lock down people when they need to be isolated,'' Janssen said. ``This plan is the beginning of a process to deal with that issue. It involves reopening Sybil Brand Institute The Sybil Brand Institute (in full, the Sybil Brand Institute For Women) was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (May 8, 1899-February 17, 2004), a noted local philanthropist and civic leader. . It involves additional cells at Men's Central Jail and the Pitchess Detention Center. ``The goal is to eventually get up to about 5,000 high-security beds.'' Baca said the plan would involve ``major changes'' in how the most violent and dangerous inmates are housed. ``The current situation in the county jails justifies the Board of Supervisors declaring an emergency, where staff and inmate safety is of paramount importance,'' Baca said. In his plan, Janssen recommends spending $20 million next fiscal year to begin a $169 million refurbishment of the 1,800-bed Sybil Brand, which closed in 1997 and could reopen in three years as the women's jail. Female inmates are currently housed at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. but are expected to be moved March 25 to the Lynwood jail. That would allow the most serious male offenders at the 43-year-old Men's Central Jail and other jails to occupy one of the towers, relieving tensions in the system where recent rioting left two dead and more than 150 injured. The plan also calls for relocating male inmates over 40 to the North County Correctional Facility North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County Jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Located approximately 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former in Castaic where they would not be victimized by younger and more violent inmates, Baca said. Janssen also recommended giving Baca $25 million to pay for security cameras, a radio frequency system to track inmates, and a ``telemedicine'' system to allow doctors to prescribe treatment via videoconferencing. To help pay for the long-term price tag, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has proposed a bond measure for the November ballot. No amount has been set. Yaroslavsky said the last bond issue county voters approved was in 1988 and that will be paid off next year. If the jails problems aren't addressed, Yaroslavsky said taxpayers will face ``tremendous risks'' in terms of large payouts for various problems overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. contributes to, including rioting injuries and floor-sleeping. Baca also is campaigning to place a one-quarter percent sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. increase on the November ballot to deal with rising gang violence in the county. But Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San said he opposes both the bond measure and tax increase. ``With the recent passage of Proposition 1A, we have the ability to fully fund law enforcement programs with existing revenues - that includes $18.3 million to enhance services in unincorporated areas - and the proposed 2006-07 budget gives the sheriff another increase of about $130 million,'' he said. Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com |
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