Unaccompanied Youth Detention Center Denied

Assemblymember Marie Waldron Assemblymember Marie Waldron 1 Comment

Tonight the Escondido Planning Commission unanimously denied a Conditional Use Permit for a controversial youth detention center that the Federal Government was intending to site in a residential neighborhood in southwest Escondido.   As one of many such facilities planned nationwide, the feds have contracted with Southwest Key, a management type non-profit to run these youth camps. In a packed …