Ho-Hum, Another County Plan to Expand Musick Jail, Another Irvine Lawsuit to Stop It
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It's happening again: Irvine is reportedly suing the county over a plan to add 512 beds to the minimum-security jail.
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| Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's Department |
| Musick Facility inmates pray for a miracle. |
That's not all that has changed. Musick currently has 1,250 beds, but the county Board of Supervisors in December approved a $100 million upgrade. Adding another 500+ would still keep the population below 2,000, but Voice of OC was recently handed documents from Irvine City Councilman Jeff Lalloway that show Sheriff Sandra Hutchens plans to push the number of inmates up to 3,100 by 2018.
Meanwhile, according to those same documents the Voice of OC says it has seen, part of the facility under the initial expansion could include holding cells for violent criminals--the inmates most like to try to escape--for up to a week while they await transfers. That flies in the face of previous negotiations where Hutchens reportedly vowed to Irvine officials maximum-security prisoners would never be held at Musick.
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