INDIO: New jail would have classrooms, video visits -- The detention center, scheduled to open by 2017, will ease crowding that has led to early release of thousands of inmates.

Those are some of the features planned for the East County Detention Center. The $274 million project, centerpiece of a $400 million infusion of new public buildings in Indio, has yet to break ground but is expected to open by early 2017. [read the full story here]

Orange County Register, Friday, July 4, 2014