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Prison chief reveals expansion plans
By The Associated Press
Posted: 04/01/2009 09:33:37 PM PDT
The head of California's prison system says the department is preparing plans to build space for 2,800 inmates and will ask for legislative approval soon.
The planned expansion at three prisons would be the first construction pro-
jects to draw money from an $8billion bill approved by lawmakers two years ago.
Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said Wednesday that he plans to seek approval within weeks to build cellblocks for 900 inmates each at Kern Valley and North Kern state prisons near Delano.
He also wants to convert a juvenile facility near Paso Robles into a prison for 1,000 older men.
Adding cells is part of the state's response to a federal court finding that it must reduce overcrowding.
TERRA BELLA
Voluntary test nipped tainted pistachios. The reason it didn't take dozens of illnesses for federal regulators to learn about salmonella-tainted pistachios has nothing to do with federal regulations.
Routine but voluntary testing by a manufacturer for Kraft Foods Inc. first detected the contamination almost two weeks ago, when workers at a plant in Illinois decided to check roasted nuts going into huge vats of trail mix. Private auditors hired by Kraft later found problems they think caused the contamination at a supplier's processing facility in central California.
If Kraft had not chosen to prioritize testing, 2 million pounds of pistachios that touched off government warnings and a nationwide salmonella scare this week probably would still be on the market. Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor state laws require food manufacturers to test the safety of their products.
LOS ANGELES
City Council, USC add to reward in hit-run. Rewards have risen to $135,000 in a hit-and-run that killed one student and injured another near the University of Southern California.
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday offered $75,000 and the university added $50,000 to a $10,000 reward approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The rewards seek information leading to the arrest and convictions of the persons involved in the March 29 death of 19-year- old freshman Adrianna Bachan of Santa Barbara. Fellow freshman Marcus Garfinkle of Scottsdale, Ariz., remains hospitalized.
A car struck the students in a crosswalk at 3a.m. as they were returning from parties to their campus residences. Garfinkle became stuck on the hood of the car until it stopped and a passenger got out and pulled him off. The car then fled.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO mulls Senate bid. Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina said she is "seriously considering" running for public office in California next year, prompting a dig at her corporate record by her potential competitor, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina made the comments Tuesday to reporters in Washington, D.C., at the Technology Policy Institute, a conservative think-tank that recently named her as its chairwoman.
The 54-year-old Republican was an economic adviser to GOP presidential nominee John McCain last year.
When asked about any potential political plans, Fiorina said, "I'm seriously considering a race in California."
- From news services
Posted: 04/01/2009 09:33:37 PM PDT
The head of California's prison system says the department is preparing plans to build space for 2,800 inmates and will ask for legislative approval soon.
The planned expansion at three prisons would be the first construction pro-
jects to draw money from an $8billion bill approved by lawmakers two years ago.
Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said Wednesday that he plans to seek approval within weeks to build cellblocks for 900 inmates each at Kern Valley and North Kern state prisons near Delano.
He also wants to convert a juvenile facility near Paso Robles into a prison for 1,000 older men.
Adding cells is part of the state's response to a federal court finding that it must reduce overcrowding.
TERRA BELLA
Voluntary test nipped tainted pistachios. The reason it didn't take dozens of illnesses for federal regulators to learn about salmonella-tainted pistachios has nothing to do with federal regulations.
Routine but voluntary testing by a manufacturer for Kraft Foods Inc. first detected the contamination almost two weeks ago, when workers at a plant in Illinois decided to check roasted nuts going into huge vats of trail mix. Private auditors hired by Kraft later found problems they think caused the contamination at a supplier's processing facility in central California.
If Kraft had not chosen to prioritize testing, 2 million pounds of pistachios that touched off government warnings and a nationwide salmonella scare this week probably would still be on the market. Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor state laws require food manufacturers to test the safety of their products.
LOS ANGELES
City Council, USC add to reward in hit-run. Rewards have risen to $135,000 in a hit-and-run that killed one student and injured another near the University of Southern California.
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday offered $75,000 and the university added $50,000 to a $10,000 reward approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The rewards seek information leading to the arrest and convictions of the persons involved in the March 29 death of 19-year- old freshman Adrianna Bachan of Santa Barbara. Fellow freshman Marcus Garfinkle of Scottsdale, Ariz., remains hospitalized.
A car struck the students in a crosswalk at 3a.m. as they were returning from parties to their campus residences. Garfinkle became stuck on the hood of the car until it stopped and a passenger got out and pulled him off. The car then fled.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO mulls Senate bid. Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina said she is "seriously considering" running for public office in California next year, prompting a dig at her corporate record by her potential competitor, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina made the comments Tuesday to reporters in Washington, D.C., at the Technology Policy Institute, a conservative think-tank that recently named her as its chairwoman.
The 54-year-old Republican was an economic adviser to GOP presidential nominee John McCain last year.
When asked about any potential political plans, Fiorina said, "I'm seriously considering a race in California."
- From news services
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