County Delays Action on Suit to Block Prison
Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday postponed a decision on whether to sue to block state construction of a prison in Lancaster in the Antelope Valley.
Supervisor Mike Antonovich-- who represents the Antelope Valley and requested the lawsuit--and Supervisor Deane Dana suggested that state prison officials consider state-owned land in remote Hungry Valley, east of Golden State Freeway north of Gorman, for the prison.
The Lancaster site was selected in a 1987 political compromise in which the Legislature authorized Los Angeles County prisons in the heavily Republican Antelope Valley and in heavily Democratic East Los Angeles.
The city councils of Lancaster and Los Angeles earlier this month authorized lawsuits to block the planned prisons in their communities.
Antonovich’s lawsuit request stalled on opposition from Supervisor Edmund D. Edelman, who feared upsetting the 1987 compromise. With only three supervisors present and Edelman opposed, Antonovich delayed the matter until Thursday.
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