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Valley fever fears put prison plan on hold
By Sacramento Bee
Published: 10/17/2007

CALIFORNIA - California corrections officials have "temporarily deferred" a plan to add beds to a Fresno County prison where at least 12 inmates have died of valley fever since 2004.

While the state is holding off on a construction program at Pleasant Valley State Prison, the corrections agency still intends to go ahead with expansion plans at four institutions in Kern County where three other inmates have died of the disease during the same time span. Read more.

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