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Our California Jails Series Continues…

When you think of Monterey, you may think world-class golf and restaurants, Cannery Row, the Aquarium… ahh, lovely, misty Northern California! As bail bondsmen when think of Monterey, we not only think of the romantacism, but also of the unfortunate state of the old and falling apart jail in Salinas.

Greg Rynerson Bail Bonds continues with the fourth in our series on California jails: Inside the Monterey County Jail. Here we will let you in on

• The Failing Physical State of the Monterey Jail
• The History
• The Jail’s Mysteries
• Overcrowding and Prospects fo a new jail

Is there a jail you’d like to know more about? Let us know. We’ll get you “Inside” (or, if you need we’ll get you out!).

Farmland south of the Salinas city limits has been slated as the building site for a new and larger Monterey County jail that will be part of a “public safety campus.” Other facilities on the proposed site include a new juvenile hall, youth center and a Probation Department. Unfortunately, the county currently doesn’t have the budget to construct this detention center or its related facilities, so it will probably be five years until ground can be broken. But that did not stop the Monterey County Board of Supervisors from approving it, anyway.

The deal allows Read more »