$40.5 MILLION GRANTED TO FUND JUVENILE FACILITY.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Daily News Staff Writer Ventura County has cleared the final hurdle in securing $40.5 million for a new juvenile hall, ensuring that younger and nonviolent offenders will be housed separately from more dangerous inmates. The state Board of Corrections on Thursday appropriated two-thirds of the estimated $64 million needed to build a 240-bed detention hall and two long-term ``commitment programs,'' comprising 180 additional beds. ``I'm relieved,'' said Don Krause, the county's chief deputy probation officer probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. . ``We'll have more than double the space we have now to treat kids. Hopefully, it will mean no more 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. . ``The critical thing is that we're going to be able to keep the minors in a more safe environment because we'll be able to segregate seg·re·gate v. seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates v.tr. 1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate. 2. the kids by gang affiliation as well as by age and the degree of criminality,'' he said. The facility is part of the county's overall plan to build an $80 million to $100 million complex that includes six juvenile courtrooms and support service offices. The Board of Corrections' ruling followed a recommendation made in April by its commission, appointed to earmark earmark taking a piece out of the edge or center of the ear with a punch as an identification mark. The shape of the mark may be registerable under local legislation. $168 million in federal funding for jails - about $150 million of which was for juvenile facilities. ``The county can now realize what had seemed to be an unachievable but necessary goal with local resources,'' said Superior Court Judge Steven Perren, one of the county's two juvenile judges. ``The (federal) money suddenly became available. And the probation office and chief administrative office did a sensational sen·sa·tion·al adj. 1. Of or relating to sensation. 2. Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details: job in seizing the moment and putting together a proposal that accurately reflected the critical need that we had in a way that could be understood by the people that had to make the decision.'' The remainder of the funding was awarded to adult county jails outside Ventura County. County supervisors in March approved borrowing $23 million for nonconstruction-related expenses, such as the purchase of a site, architect's fees and utilities installation. Architect's designs would allow for a 120-bed expansion of the juvenile hall and commitment programs, which together are expected to be filled to capacity in 2010. The county is considering 42- to 50-acre sites in Saticoy, El Rio and Oxnard for a single-story complex as well as 10- to 15-acre sites near Camarillo and Ventura for a two-story structure. Officials must agree on a site in the not-too-distant future because they risk losing the state funding if the facility is not complete by May 2003 and open that September. The 84-bed Clifton Tatum Center in Ventura holds an average of 110 wards on a given day and has taken in as many as 132. Colston Youth Center, on the grounds of the Tatum facility, is always filled to its 45-bed capacity and has a waiting list of five to 18 offenders. Ventura County's share of 20 beds at the Tri-Counties Boot Camp Software from Apple that enables an Intel x86-based Macintosh to host the Windows XP operating system. Boot Camp is used to divide the hard disk into Windows and Mac partitions, to install the necessary drivers and to create a dual boot environment. in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. County and the 24-bed Juvenile Restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the Program in Ventura also generally are filled to capacity. ``We're trying to make kids who have difficulty better,'' Perren said. ``You can't grow roses in the desert. You can't expect kids to improve the quality of their life in a bad environment.'' |
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