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| Gaines' jail-overcrowding bill heads to committee |
| By redding.com- David Benda |
| Published: 04/22/2015 |
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REDDING, CALIFORNIA - A public safety bill whose sponsor State Sen. Ted Gaines says will help ease overcrowding in California jails is scheduled for a committee hearing next month. SB 171 would authorize the sheriff of a county to contract with any state, county, private jail or prison system in the United States to transfer inmates to those facilities, if the county is over 80 percent capacity. Gaines was going to speak at Tuesday’s Redding Merchants Crime Watch meeting to give an update on his bill. But the Republican, whose district includes Shasta County, had to miss it because his son, Teddy, was hurt in a traffic collision on Highway 50 earlier in the day. Gaines, who spoke to the Record Searchlight by phone after the meeting, said his son is OK and “lucky to be alive.” Read More. |
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