Posted on May 10 at 9:57 p.m.

YOU CAN PAINT A BARN ANY COLOR YOU WANT, BUT IT IS STILL A BARN.

These are 500-bed prisons, which include expensive, high-security cells.

It should be noted that the voters in many counties, to include Shasta and Contra Costa, have rejected having “prison re-entry facilities” built in their counties.

Voters need to research this program for themselves by performing an Internet search (Secure Community Reentry Facilities) to read more about this program.

Though the state concept has merit, it is a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer money.

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