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| County wary of $40M jail offering |
| By The Modesto Bee |
| Published: 10/28/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - Stanislaus County is being offered almost $40 million to expand the county's jail complex -- but county officials are choking on a string attached to the money. The county needs to add 420 medium and maximum security beds to its overcrowded jail on Hackett Road south of Modesto. The jail is at capacity, and the county is using early release and alternative sentencing programs to handle the inmate population. A 2007 study of the sheriff's facility needs, which included demolition of the aging honor farm and downtown Modesto jail, the expansion of the Hackett Road jail complex and a new coroner's facility, came up with a price tag of $210.5 million. Just adding the 420 beds is estimated to cost $79 million, in 2007 dollars. That includes 300 new beds and 120 gained through "double bunking" in cells. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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