COUNTY OKS PLAN TO HOUSE WOMEN AT JAIL; BACA TO SEEK STATE FUNDS FOR PITCHESS EXPANSION.Byline: Erin Gebroe Daily News Staff Writer A $4.5 million expansion at the Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
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. in 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's jail system. The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. gave 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. the go-ahead Tuesday to request $3.35 million from the state Board of Corrections. The county would contribute an additional $1.12 million to a project that would add 160 beds to the Pitchess complex by replacing a dilapidated minimum-security facility with a women's jail. ``It's going to be a women's facility built on the site of the old Ranch Facility,'' said sheriff's Capt. Errol Van Horne Van Horne can refer to: People
Partly necessitating the new construction is the ``three strikes, you're out'' sentencing law, which ``has caused Los Angeles County's high-security inmate population to nearly triple,'' according to a letter from Baca to the Board of Supervisors. Coincidentally, the supervisors approved Baca's request the same day a San Francisco-based research organization released a study showing that California's ``three strikes'' law has not effectively reduced crime in Los Angeles Crime in Los Angeles has been a major problem in Southern California and concern for Angeleno residents since the early 20th Century. Crime has steadily decreased since the 1990's but since 2006, crime has increased. County or elsewhere in the state. The ``three strikes'' law, implemented five years ago, doubles the sentence of second-time felons and puts third-time felons away for 25 years to life. ``It's costing us huge sums of money, and there's no evidence that it's doing what it's supposed to do,'' said Dan Macallair, co-author of the study, which was released Tuesday by the Justice Policy Institute. The $4.47 million would be used to destroy rundown wood buildings that are no longer in use and to build five dormitory-style housing units with a total of 160 beds. Women currently at the high-security 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. in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or who do not need that level of security would be moved to the new housing units at Pitchess. Twin Towers would then have more space for higher-risk inmates and could therefore operate more cost effectively. Other former Ranch Facility buildings would be refurbished into a medical center, educational center, library and counseling center and chapel, Van Horne said. ``It's going to be designed to look more like cottages and housing units that are built for comfort, built to facilitate learning,'' Van Horne said, adding that the focus will be on self-esteem, rehabilitation, parenting and job skills. Baca has said that he would also like to reinstate ranching facilities at Pitchess. A farm, Baca said, ``would be an excellent rehabilitative tool for women who are serving time.'' Van Horne said he expects the housing units to be completed in about a year. More construction for women's accommodations will follow. ``By the time we're finished, we can expect a facility that will hold approximately 1,400 women,'' Van Horne said. The Board of Corrections is distributing grant money through its Juvenile and Adult Local Detention Facility Construction Grants program. The Sheriff's Department will likely get the money with no problem, said Cam Currier, spokesman for 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 . It will know for sure, however, in late May, according to a report by Baca. |
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