Dear Editor,
State guidelines do not prevent fencing a juvenile detention
facility, just
”
locking
”
it. In 1995, when local juvenile detention facilities were under
the state courts’ control, the state Board of Corrections and the
county’s Civil Grand Jury recommended fencing the William F. James
Ranch.
Dear Editor,
State guidelines do not prevent fencing a juvenile detention facility, just “locking” it. In 1995, when local juvenile detention facilities were under the state courts’ control, the state Board of Corrections and the county’s Civil Grand Jury recommended fencing the William F. James Ranch.
The County Probation Department, then under the court’s direction, refused. Recently, juvenile facilities came under control of the Board of Supervisors. The Board may approve the James Ranch to be fenced, entailing a staffer stationed at the “unlocked” gate. The youthful offenders need not know the gate is unlocked.
Cherie Bourlard, Morgan Hil
