VENTURA COUNTY SUPERVISORS ENDORSE BOOT CAMP PLAN.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer County supervisors agreed Tuesday to support a federally funded 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 the mountains north of 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. for teen-age lawbreakers. The board agreed to contribute $558,240 in the first year of camp operation in exchange for 20 beds reserved for Ventura County offenders. Teen-agers from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. counties will fill out the ranks. Ventura County officials touted the boot camp, Los Prietos Boys Camp, as an inexpensive way to teach valuable lessons in respect and discipline. Teen-agers committed to the camp would undergo a rigorous routine of exercise and hard labor HARD LABOR, punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor. that might include clearing fire breaks, cleaning campgrounds and planting tree seedlings. ``It won't be the picture of a drill sergeant (Mil.) a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. (Mil.) See under Drill. See also: Drill Sergeant running people into the ground,'' said Frank Woodson, director of the Ventura County Corrections Services Agency. ``But it won't be easy either. These kids owe something to the community.'' Participating in the tri-county project is actually less expensive than paying for full incarceration Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment. Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. or private placement, Woodson said. It costs the county $35,000 a year to keep a juvenile locked up at the California Youth Authority institution, he said, and about $32,000 a year for private placement. ``We are moving people out of those placements,'' Woodson said. ``This gives us one more tool to reduce those costs.'' The federal government has promised $865,000 from the 1994 crime bill for the boot camp. Each of the counties has committed to matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money to pay for renovation of the camp to be completed next summer. Local officials hope the boot camp will help relieve severe 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. in juvenile lockups. Over the past decade the number of inmates at the 84-bed Clifton Tatum Center in Ventura has swelled by 114 percent. County supervisors said more effort should be devoted to preventive programs designed to help young people in trouble. Without these extra programs the county will never adequately tackle the endemic of youthful crime, said Supervisor John Flynn. The trouble with hard-nosed projects like the boot camp, Flynn said, is that they can backfire like the program camp for young lawbreakers that once operated at Los Prietos. The county stopped sending youthful offenders youthful offenders n. under-age people accused of crimes, who are processed through a juvenile court and juvenile detention or prison facilities. In most states a youthful offender is under the age of 18. to the facility in the late 1970s because it only hardened young criminals, he said. ``We would send kids up there and when they came out they wore that badge that said `L.P.' as a badge of defiance,'' Flynn said. ``They bragged about it. I hope we can change that, because it didn't do any good at all.'' By including educational and social service with the military-style drills, program designers hope the boot camp helps turn young lives around. ``Because their day is structured, they can transfer that back to the community,'' said Carol Hurtt, Corrections Services Division manager. ``It helps them organize and bring structure to their lives.'' |
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