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Byline: Arley Sanchez Journal Staff Writer
Costs Reviewed Amid Budget Woes
There are no clanging iron doors at the Valencia County adult jail, locked with metal keys, only clicking ones that are secured electronically.
Floors and walls are gleaming, no laundry hangs from cell bars, no water stands on cell floors from broken fixtures, there are no dark and foreboding blind spots where trouble may lurk, no cells packed with six or more prisoners.
It hasn't been that long ago, senior Warden Lawrence Barreras said, that the jail, under county stewardship, was widely known as a "dungeon not fit for human habitation."