JUVENILE OFFENDERS SKIRT JAIL; FACILITY'S OFFICIALS SEE MORE TURNAWAYS.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 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. prevented more than 1,300 youths from being admitted to the Clifton Tatum Center juvenile facility in 1997 and officials expect the same number of turnaways this year. But next year, however, some juvenile offenders will not be able to dodge the legal bullet. The Ventura 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. on Tuesday appropriated an additional $600,000 to the $620,000 it approved in June for construction of new juvenile space by next July. ``It's a stop-gap measure but I think it's an important one,'' 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. . To alleviate overcrowding at Tatum Center, officials plan to renovate the former adult furlough fur·lough n. 1. a. A leave of absence or vacation, especially one granted to a member of the armed forces. b. A usually temporary layoff from work. c. work complex at Camarillo Airport Camarillo Airport (ICAO: KCMA, FAA LID: CMA) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. so it will house up to 40 inmates, ages 16 to 18, in the Juvenile Restitution Program. Youths in that program, located adjacent to Tatum Center in Ventura, will be transferred to the airport facility. That will free up space in Tatum Center because low-risk juvenile offenders there are to be moved to the existing juvenile building, which has 24 beds. Although Tatum Center's capacity is 84 people, ages 12 to 18, the facility averages 112 on a given day and has housed as many as 137, according to Calvin Remington, the county's chief probation officer. ``It's just too many,'' he said. ``We can't adequately do our job.'' The supervisors transferred the $1.2 million to the Probation Agency's capital projects budget from unused funds last year and this fiscal year. The bulk of the transfer will be earmarked for renovation of the Camarillo Airport facility while nearly $100,000 will go toward additional security fencing and cameras on the current site. As a long-term solution to massive overcrowding, probation and other law enforcement officials are eyeing what county 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 Lin Koester called a ``mini-government center'' within five to seven years. The complex, which could cost as much as $50 million in county, state and federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve , would include a 240-bed juvenile facility, a 120-bed senior camp for ages 16 to 18, a 60-bed junior camp for ages 13 to 15, additional detention space, six courtrooms and office space for mental health and probation staff. ``We're probably 10 years behind the curveball,'' Remington said. ``We're desperate.'' Tatum Center housed 2,300 inmates, including many violent offenders, last year and officials expect possibly more in 1998. An additional 1,300 nonviolent delinquents were sent home with orders to make regular visits to their probation officers. The county, however, has only about 50 electronic monitoring devices to keep track of offenders' whereabouts. |
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