SURGE IN WOMEN INMATES FORCES JAIL OVERHAUL.Byline: Don Holland Daily News Staff Writer The growing number of women jail inmates is forcing the Sheriff's Department to revamp operations and shut down its hog farm The Hog Farm is an organization considered to be America's longest running hippie commune. With beginnings as an actual collective hog farm in Tujunga, California, the group, founded in the 1960s, by a group of people including Wavy Gravy, evolved into a "mobile, , one of the largest in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Although the number of female inmates is below the 1989 peak of 200, the population steadily has increased since 1992. And the Branch Jail Honor Farm Women's Facility still houses about 170 inmates - more than its intended capacity of about 130, said Cmdr. David Tenneson of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. . ``Actually, we're exceeding our capacity at that facility,'' he said. ``We're triple-bunked. We'd prefer not to do that.'' To make room for more inmates at the women's jail, the department plans to move out the 145 men who are housed there and eliminate the livestock operation where they work. Aside from its human inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. , the honor farm is home to almost 2,000 hogs and 160 head of cattle, all of which are cared for and consumed by the inmates. ``They do everything from feeding to inoculation inoculation, in medicine, introduction of a preparation into the tissues or fluids of the body for the purpose of preventing or curing certain diseases. The preparation is usually a weakened culture of the agent causing the disease, as in vaccination against of the animals to the actual slaughter of them,'' Tenneson said. The nearly 40-year-old operation supplies more than 150 tons of pork annually to the jail system. The operation was intended to help inmates pick up skills that would help them find work once they are released. But the decline in demand for farm labor, and the costs to run the operation and the need for more room to house women spelled the end of the farm. Sheriff's Cmdr. Mark Bell said both the increase in women and the need 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. particular inmates because of violent tendencies or gang ties prompted the changes. The average number of women in jail in the first six months of this year has shot up about 11 percent from the same period last year. |
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