Orange Councilmen Holding Presser To Blast Theo Lacy Plan
Posted by: Jubal | 03/25/2008 10:00 AM
This came over the transom from Orange Councilman Denis Bilodeau:
Orange Mayor Pro Tem Dumitru and Councilmember Bilodeau to hold Press Conference on Plan to Release State Prison Inmates from Jail in Orange
Mayor Pro Tem Jon Dumitru and Councilmember Denis Bilodeau are holding a press conference across the street from Theo Lacy Jail at 10AM Tuesday March 25th. The location is the parking lot directly across from the jail at T.G.I. Fridays. (3339 City Parkway East, Orange). It is at the corner of The City Drive and Justice Center Way.WHEN: Tuesday March 25th 10:00 AMWHERE: T.G.I. Fridays. (3339 City Parkway East, Orange). It is at the corner of The City Drive and Justice Center Way.
"This proposed change to put career criminals in Theo Lacy jail to be released to potentially victimize our residents is wrong and we will fight this to the end to protect our residents," said Mayor Pro Tem Jon Dumitru
"We have an agreement in place which prevents any further expansion or modification of the jail. We will not tolerate state prisons inmates being released to prey on the citizens of Orange," said Councilmember Denis Bilodeau
The City of Orange City Council will consider a resolution Tuesday, March 25th opposing an Orange County Sheriff Department plan to designate Theo Lacy jail in Orange as a "State Re-entry Facility". This plan will designate 292 beds as state prison beds. These inmates will be subsequently released from the jail in Orange. This resolution will be considered at its 4:30 PM Council session (300 E. Chapman, Orange).
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As a former neighbor of the Block/Theo Lacey/ Animal Control/ UCIMC/complexes, I was horrified when they "upgraded" the Theo Lacey facility to even hold the "high achievers of crime", the more dangerous criminals, several years ago. There was a hew and cry by residents in that area at that time. But of course NO ONE LISTENED to the taxpaying residents in the neighborhoods near by these facilities. They went ahead and made it a higher level "security" facility to hold the more hardened criminals then.
The deal was they were not to be released from that facility but taken to Central Jail and processed for release. But as we all know, most government agencies take things one step at a time, first if they can get away with this, they will get away with "that" later.
The problem is that this facility sits technically in Orange, very close to the bedroom community of Garden Grove, and the residentially populated areas of Orange and Anaheim. So it's hard to coordinate residents from three different cities to get on the same page and fight this.
I hope someone coordinates that effort and holds their feet to the fire on the original agreement NOT to release from that facility.
Kudos to the Orange Council for refusing to be rolled on this one. OCSD must strive to be a better neighbor and get out so far ahead on issues like this without (1) disclosure to the community IN ADVANCE, and (2) dialogue with the electeds in affected communities. Dumitru has a good point on this one.
Rather than reacting without doing any research on the details, I'd recommend that people do some homework first. Most of the inmates would be sent to housing services after release, which is predominatly already located in Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Anaheim. This is just ridiculous posturing from the City of Orange to keep Santa Ana as the dumping ground for poor people. Scare tactics at it's worst...these are people with college degrees, too.
i think that theo lacey jail should be shut down for keeping innocent people in there.this is not a nice place to put innocent people.only murders and rapest not innocent people