WOMEN INMATES MAY BE MOVED TO CYA FACILITY.Byline: Andrea Cavanaugh Staff Writer VENTURA - Ventura County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore whether 200 women inmates from the overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. county jail can be housed alongside female wards at a California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Youth Authority lockup See hang and abend. . The supervisors voted 5-0 to study whether the plan would be cost- effective. Supervisor Kathy Long proposed the idea after learning that CYA CYA Cover your ass. See Defensive medicine. officials and Sheriff Bob Brooks were willing to consider the plan. The CYA's Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo became an all-female lockup in February when its 275 male wards were transferred to other facilities in a move expected to save the state $2 million per year. The Camarillo lockup is the only CYA facility in the state that houses female wards. The CYA facility currently houses 192 female wards in seven buildings. An additional three buildings - each of which includes a kitchen, dayroom, bathrooms, showers and 50 rooms, and designed to house a single inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. - are vacant. Inmates could be doubled up in the rooms if necessary, authorities said. Budget cuts forced the closure of the county's women's jail last year. As a result, an estimated 200 female inmates are being housed at a county jail that previously housed only men, causing jail 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. . Brooks obtained a court order in January that allowed the early release of inmates any time the jail's population exceeds 1,400 men or 200 women. Since then, about 1,000 inmates have been released up to five days early, said Ken Kipp, a chief deputy sheriff. State law requires that adults and juveniles be separated by both sight and sound. The CYA houses female wards up to age 25, but those wards are considered juveniles. Andrea Cavanaugh, (805) 583-7602 andrea.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com |
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