Re-entry facility > Rexroad.com

This post could go on for days. Where to start?

First, the rules have changed several times during the time Yolo County has attempted to administer some of the provisions of AB 900.

I disagree with this part of the editorial in the paper today -- "From all outward appearances, Yolo County officials have been trying to hide discussions on a future site for a "prison" on a 15-acre lot, capable of accommodating 500 inmates plus 350 workers." Here is the full editorial.

We have never hidden anything.

For those people like "The By Hell Chronicles" and Leslie Phardresher in her letter to the editor today I am amazed that I show up in Zamora at their invitation to explain what the deal is and then they attack me. I can tell you that if something like this was happening in Woodland I would want to be the one explaining it to the people I represent. That is my job.

As for where to put this thing -- I think it is more consistent with industrial zoning than anything else. That is my opinion. I discussed this option with the City of Woodland in a 2x2 meeting that was publicly noticed that no one from the press or pubic decided to show up too. In fact, Supervisor Chamberlain sat right there in the meeting. Please look at the record of public notices you will see that re-entry facility has been openly discussed multiple times.

I have two reasons that I think we need a re-entry facility in the area.

First, our current system of corrections and the state level is a disaster. Re-entry facilities are the kinds of things we need to stop wasting money on a "rehabilitation system" that does not really exist.

Second. $30 million. By siting one of these facilities in the county that comes with 375 good jobs on 15 acres the county makes $30 million toward our jail expansion.

Several of the people in Zamora said we should pull the application. One guy after the meeting said no amount of money was worth it. As a fiscal conservative I just can't buy that. $30 million is $30 million.

Comments

By YoloCalVet @ Monday, June 30, 2008 1:33 PM

Let me see...I found out about the "Dunnigan Dam"...sounded like god idea, water storage is better than no water....then a study about the prefered area for new growth...Dunnigan comes up...new water for new development...then out of the blue comes a proposal for a re-entry facility only info was an article in the Daily Democrat. Makes me speculate whether the incremental move toward infrastructure for Dunnigan wasn't a rouse for infrastructure for the new prison facility. That leads me to believe the housing would be for family members of the inmates at the Re-entry facility, and what jobs would these family members obtain in Dunnigan to support themselves while in proximity of the prison or would they be Section 8 and/or on welfare, an added expense to Yolo County. They certainly couldn't be employed at the Prison with their loved ones...might be a conflict of interest. With Duane Chamberlains Deputy's twin sister working at the Correctional facility does that pose a conflict of interest? Seems like this prison proposal was a shadow proposal to the "Dunnigan Dam & Dunnigan Estates" deal. I hope I am seriously wrong.

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