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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After much than a decennary successful the making, the Fresno County West Annex Jail is complete.
To observe this long-awaited moment, Fresno County and California authorities officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremonial connected Tuesday.
On the country of L and Merced streets successful Downtown Fresno, what was erstwhile an bare lot, present sits the caller $100 million, three-story region corrections facility.
"The caller installation is an illustration of the changing correctional scenery successful California that started with the passing of AB 109, which realigned our situation populations distant from authorities prisons and placed an expanding fig of sentenced offenders into our region jails," Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said.
The West Annex Jail volition regenerate the South Annex Jail.
The caller installation tin clasp 300 inmates, which is astir 200 inmates less than what the southbound installation held.
However, owed to the outdated information of the southbound jail, Zanoni said that astatine times, up to 10% of beds were not being used.
"There's not going to beryllium a wide merchandise of 199 incarcerated persons," Zanoni said.
With 10 workout yards, aesculapian clinics and overmuch much the caller jailhouse is focusing connected the well-being and intelligence wellness of some inmates and staff.
"Whether it's counseling done intelligence health, whether it's the programming, truthful we don't person those individuals re-offend each the time, to springiness them the skills and the tools to spell retired and beryllium palmy and hopefully not travel back," he said.
The mode the West Annex Jail was built, it has the capableness for 2 further lodging floors to beryllium added connected top, "which would treble the capacity."
Zanoni said erstwhile each inmates are transferred to the caller jail, the southbound installation volition beryllium utilized arsenic bureau and retention space.
He assured that this volition not impact the mode inmates are transported to court.
"With this installation here, it's linked to the northbound jail, which is linked to the main jailhouse and the underground passageway which goes to the courthouse, it's conscionable a small spot of a longer track, but we'll inactive beryllium capable to bash that, inactive beryllium capable to get them to tribunal via that passageway successful a precise harmless and businesslike manner," helium said.
Inmates volition gradually beryllium moved to the caller installation starting wrong the adjacent 2 weeks.
