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| County lacks money to run jail expansion |
| By pe.com |
| Published: 02/01/2010 |
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By DUANE W. GANG The Press-Enterprise The 173,000 square feet of new jail space at Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning will be Riverside County's most secure and advanced when completed next month. Construction began two years ago on the $80 million, 582-bed expansion. There's just one problem. The county hasn't yet found the nearly $13 million a year needed to operate the new jail expansion. If there is no new funding, the facility still could open but it would not provide the net increase in jail beds county officials had sought. Riverside County is facing what some officials call its most challenging budget situation in history. Supervisors are grappling with ways to bridge a $71 million budget gap and have said that over the next two years they might need to lay off as many as 1,600 workers. Read More. |
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