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San Mateo County (Map, News) - San Mateo County’s overcrowded jails will continue to swell if a new facility isn’t built soon, a new grand jury report warns.
The report, released Monday, says the county will struggle to rehabilitate inmates and will end up paying millions more dollars in the long run if a new, large facility is not built immediately. The women’s facility on Maple Street is packed too tight with inmates, says grand jury foreman Gerald Yaffee, who recently toured the facility.
The county’s jails house 45 percent more inmates than the design capacity, the report says.
71 days ago: Potential jailhouse locations to stand trial
» 98 days ago: County needs larger jails «
209 days ago: County officials apply for jail funds
248 days ago: County explores ways to alleviate overcrowded jails
544 days ago: City committee to look into bail bond system
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4:33 PM MST on Tue., Jul. 29, 2008 re: "Potential jailhouse locations to stand trial"
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Albert Franklin said:
I do not see anywhere here that San Mateo County wants to heighten its existing building higher. Why would San Mateo County seek $100,000,000 from this State when the State's attorney general can account for $2,000,000,000 of San Mateo County's money when he was mayor of Oakland took it from them? San Mateo County has a prisoner problem now? All the county needs to do is add on to the old overburned building!
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