Kern County sheriff unveils plan for $110M new jail
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — California has awarded Kern County a $100 million grant to build a new county jail.
Sheriff's Donny Youngblood announced his plans Friday for a facility that would house nearly 800 inmates.
The county's Board of Supervisors will consider the plan next month. Supervisors must approve construction of a new jail and authorize a 10 percent funding match towards construction.
Youngblood didn't say when he hopes construction will begin, but he estimated it will take four years to complete. He said the construction contract must also go through a bidding process.
The proposed jail would be built just a few hundred yards from Lerdo Jail and have 576 medium-security beds, 128 flex beds (for either medium-security or mental health inmates), 32 disciplinary isolation beds and 32 high-risk super max beds.
Sheriff's Donny Youngblood announced his plans Friday for a facility that would house nearly 800 inmates.
The county's Board of Supervisors will consider the plan next month. Supervisors must approve construction of a new jail and authorize a 10 percent funding match towards construction.
Youngblood didn't say when he hopes construction will begin, but he estimated it will take four years to complete. He said the construction contract must also go through a bidding process.
The proposed jail would be built just a few hundred yards from Lerdo Jail and have 576 medium-security beds, 128 flex beds (for either medium-security or mental health inmates), 32 disciplinary isolation beds and 32 high-risk super max beds.
Waste of money... The police are nothing more than hired thugs. Time for them to go. They no longer serve the interest of the public. The Kern county sheriff dpt. can lick my ass, because they couldn't kiss anyone's ass let alone kick it. They are a bunch of bi*ches.Â
Oh goody,just what is needed,another jail.Don't have enough of those.It's better to spend the money that way.
Cut funding for schools,build jails,put the uneducated people in jail.Keeps some people working,huh ?
So tax payers pick up a 10 million matching fee and millions a year to run it after? Oh well, it might be money better spent than 30 million plus spent on Meadows Field which is fairly lightly used or the entertainment complex downtown which doesn't seem to make any money. Didn't anyone learn from what happened to Stockton?Â
If you used that money for the high speed rail you could just send the convicts out of town on a rail literally and you can send them out of here fast with the threat that if they get caught here again they will do twenty years minimum You wont have any repeat offenders !
Kern County will take all the funds it can from the federal Government  and the state to open jails but not to make high speed rails or give health benefits to the poor and sick  Interesting community  very interesting human`s  that lives hereÂ
gotta have more jails to lock up gun toting law abing citezens that dont want to give up there rights.
 @rebel Let's go with no jails and see how well that works...