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| Overcrowding in Ventura County Jail |
| By venturacountystar.com |
| Published: 05/31/2009 |
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Grand Jury finds overcrowding at two county jails By John Scheibe The Ventura County Grand Jury issued a report Friday saying there is overcrowding at two of the county’s three jails, which if allowed to continue could lead to a court order to cap the county’s inmate population. Despite the overcrowding, however, the county jails “are being operated in a safe, effective and efficient manner,” the report states. The report recommends the Sheriff’s Department and county Board of Supervisors continue to look for solutions to the overcrowding problem. The report comes after the 2008-09 Grand Jury visited the main jail in Ventura, the Todd Road facility near Santa Paula and the East Valley Detention Center in Thousand Oaks. The Grand Jury found that the main jail and Todd Road were overcrowded. The closure of the Honor Farm detention facility near Meiners Oaks in 2002 has exacerbated overcrowding at the two jails, the report found. About 200 female inmates were transferred to the main jail after the Honor Farm closed.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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