Sheriff Michael Johnson said space in the jail will get tighter, noting that Lassen County has just canceled its contract with Shasta County. Supervisor Les Baugh, who chairs the board, said during Tuesdays meeting that the August meeting will be a pivotal step toward building a new jail. 2023 www.redding.com. Speaking to Shasta Scout after the event, Burgess said those preliminary high-level results are very similar to what he saw during two previous stakeholder workshops that were invite-only and included county and city staff, law enforcement, and representatives from the business community. . A comprehensive report of the full public engagement process, which will include both a high-level summary and participants actual responses, will be made accessible to the general public in January after Burgess holds the last public workshop and releases an online community survey. David Benda coversbusiness, developmentand anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. Now we are housing people that used to go to state prison. Sign up for our free newsletters. The effect has been the siphoning of political power from disproportionately Black and Latino communities to pad out the mostly rural and often predominantly white regions where prisons are located, the study found. There are about 25 openings on the jail's correctional staff, including both unfilled positions and people out on leave, he said. Our news will always be free to read, but its not free to create. Court documents show he was at Mercy Medical Center for a leg injury. Forgot your password? ), California Government Code Section 11135, et seq., the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Cal. Redding's new Costco on Bechelli Lane reveals the month it will open, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Jewetts original complaint alleged that the Shasta County jail was in violation of the ADA because it did not have a solitary confinement unit for disabled prisoners, who were instead classified as being held in administrative segregation; because detainees with disabilities were not housed in the most integrated setting appropriate to [their] needs; and because disabled prisoners were held in medical areas when they were not actually receiving medical care or treatment.. Si vous ne souhaitez pas que nos partenaires et nousmmes utilisions des cookies et vos donnes personnelles pour ces motifs supplmentaires, cliquez sur Refuser tout.