ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : New Digs for Inmates
Overcrowding at the Orange County Jail in early 1986 forced authorities to transfer inmates to the new 409-bed James A. Musick Branch Jail in Irvine.
A federal judge set a Jan. 15 deadline for reducing the county jail’s population of more than 2,000 inmates. Most had already left the main jail and were living in tents a few hundred yards from the new facility.
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