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| Riverside County to send inmates to fire camps |
| By utsandiego.com - David Downey |
| Published: 04/30/2013 |
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Riverside is the first California county to authorize sending would-be state prisoners that have landed in jail as a result of realignment to state-operated inmate fire camps, officials say. Riverside County supervisors voted unanimously last week to send up to 200 eligible jail inmates to two nearby camps run by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, through June 30, 2017. “There is a little irony here that the state is sending down low-level offenders to counties and we are sending them back to state facilities,” Supervisor Kevin Jeffries said in a telephone interview Thursday. The expense will be paid from realignment funds allocated to Riverside County by the state, county officials say. And the move is expected to relieve pressure that realignment is placing on the county's five-jail correctional system, from which 6,990 inmates were let out in 2012 to make room for newly sentenced inmates. Read More. |
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