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<br /> The California Heath Care Facility,Stockton,will cost$738 million to
<br /> build,with a total project cost estimated at$906 million.The public Huge, state -,,prills-,
<br /> improvements include:
<br /> •widening the Arch Road offramp at
<br /> _� torFLd- Highway 99
<br /> 4aYm`f N •installing a$171,000 signal at Arch
<br /> and Austin roads
<br /> �sa,.po? Friston n er,
<br /> widening Auslin Road and adding a
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<br /> '1 R hospi#ai signal at prison entry
<br /> breaks extending Stockton water service to
<br /> prison By Scott Smith begin this year, 1st;mated to 1n 1Q13.
<br /> ground purchasing an agricultural RecordStgff bbr•itrr cost $906„million tt_will be" Federallyappointed prison
<br /> conservation easemenl paid:for by a$77 billion prison heaith'`,care.receiver -J...Clark
<br /> Arch Rd. •conlrtbutingto San Joaquin STOCKTON--Officials cer-'construction,bill Gov, Arnold Kelsainitiated'tlte project.
<br /> Habitat Conservation Plan emeniously laun ched con struc- Schwarzenegger signed :in On`T.hursday state and lo-
<br /> _.� •paying$680,000toCountyand tion Thursday of a massive 2007. cal-officials came together at
<br /> {nclriu $1.2 m0lion to cit for road improve- state prison ro.ect southeast Not long ago, state.and lo- the old1arl:Holton Youth Cor-
<br /> llrlrtk Y R P P I g g .
<br /> meats of Stockton that will um mil- cal officials were Mocked in an rectional Facility which will
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<br /> -contributing$690,000 to Stockton p p y_
<br /> x ti lions of dollars into the local acrimonious battle over plans soon-be flattened to make wary
<br /> Unified School 0istricl economy for yea s to come. for the inmate medical center for the medical center—joking
<br /> �I; ! paying$690,000 to local govern-
<br /> zi (rx !I The California Health Care planned for slate land just oue about their bygone disputes.
<br /> l litl;j meat Facility, Stockton, is one of side of Stockton.It will house "And all the lawyers and ail
<br /> sou« CzomrmRDop"tr,e,fofColoocdonser,dRM,bili.,rmn PICK HuoocKlrheR—rd the largest and most expen- 1,722 mentally arid'.phy6cally the lawyers and all the law
<br /> andC.+Itroraio Prison Health Care Services - sive state prlsc,n projects to 1y.11state prisoneprs�once It opens .SEE PRI$GN,-PAGE A6
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<br /> yers," California Department ' a � T9 •' '
<br /> of Corrections Secretary Klatt
<br /> Cate quipped in his speech.
<br /> Once it opens,the 1.2 million
<br /> square-foot prison will put to
<br /> work 2,400 doctors,nurses and MC.HArLMccCLLUM1The Rednrd
<br /> corrccIona staffers with an A handball court wall is demolished Thursday at the ground-
<br /> annual payroll of$220 million. breaking for the California Health Care Facility,Stockton.
<br /> i "We're talking good jobs,"state
<br /> Sen.Lois Wolk,D-Davis,said. our community,"she said,also houses 164,678 adult prisoners. '
<br /> Wolk played a key role in nav-- urging the assembled state of- In Thursday's groundbreak-
<br /> igating the fray between local ficiais to stay and spend their ing ceremony, prison officials
<br /> leaders—who feared the state money on Stockton restaurants called the inmate medical cen-.
<br /> would run rough-shod over the and shops. ter a success because it turns
<br /> community—and state prison The medical center is one the abandoned and weed-
<br /> officials who had been prodded of three local prison projects covered youth prison into a ne4v
<br /> by federal judges to solve over- planted for the same swath of prison.
<br />'i crowding and unconstitutional land near the highway 99 and The ceremony hit a climax
<br /> inmate rued icalcare. .Arch Road intersection, It lies when a construction worker
<br /> With the settlement firmly in just north of the Forward Land- driving a large tractor knocked
<br /> place, officials focused Thurs- fill, orie of the state's largest down a large wall where wards
<br /> day on how California's 34th dumps. of the old youth prison once
<br /> prison will benefit both the Plans are under way to con- played handball. It fell flat,
<br /> state and local economy. vert DeWitt Nelson Youth Cor- landing with aloud thud.Some
<br /> During construction, up to sectional Facility into a 1,133- officials walked off carrying
<br /> 1,700 workers will be on the bed prison medical center.The chunks ofthe broken wall,
<br /> 177175ny given day.Actual build- former Northern California Demolition and construction
<br /> ing costs are estimated to be Women's Facilitywill bA'u-rned are expected to begin in earnest
<br /> $738 million,but the expected into a;500-bed re-entry facil- in Spring 2011. Work,will be.`
<br /> T urn to the local communityiit�tyy for mafpris6ncrs a oR to complete:in Fall'2013 with'i.n-
<br /> could be as high as$1 billion. +eave prison. mates transferred:by the end of{
<br /> Stockton Mayor Ann John- Federal judges have pres thatyear,officials said:
<br /> ston—once an outspoken critic sured the state to improve med- Contact repditer Scott.Smith
<br /> r of the state's plan—welcomed it ical care and fix overcrowding at (2o9).546-8296 or ssmith@
<br /> 1 as a"boon." — two intertwined problems .recordnet corn.Visit his;blog at
<br /> ily "This is huge for our county, facing California. The state recordnetcom7smithbiog.'
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