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POSTED 7-2-2006As this editorial is being written on Friday, six inmates have escaped from Kern County’s Lerdo minimum security jail since June 21. Who knows, by the time you read this on Sunday, more may have gone missing.Our elected sheriff, Mack Wimbish, tells us the escape “problem” won’t go away until we build a new 1,000-bed facility.  “I think it has a lot to do with the age of the facility,” Wimbish told The Californian. “It’s a facility that should be bulldozed down completely.”He tries to reassure us that the situation isn’t all that bad. It was worse a decade ago “when escapes were practically a daily occurrence,” he said. But that was before a perimeter fence was extended and other security measures taken. Escapes continued, but not at this month’s pace. Wimbish says we should hold out hope for state bonds that are still just in the talking phase to pay for a new jail.Talk about...
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