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Santa Barbara Officials Mull Privatized Jail Mental Health Services

Santa Barbara Independent | June 1, 2009

Santa Barbara County's jail mental health system officially is for sale. The prospective buyer -- a private Tennessee-based prison health company -- is already lined up with a July 1 move-in date.

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Tags: Prison Health Services, prisons, Santa Barbara

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UCSB Gets Grant to Manipulate Electron Spinnew

Diamonds may be a key to revolutionizing the field of communications, according to researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCSB, who just won a $6.1 million government grant to pursue diamond-based quantum information processing.

Santa Barbara Independent | Benjamin Gottlieb | 04-20-2009 | Science

Tags: California NanoSystems Institute, UCSB, telecommunications, diamonds

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A Santa Barbara couple is on front lines of refugee crisis on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Santa Barbara Independent | Tyler Hayden | 03-10-2016 | Immigration

How Did 2,500 Barrels of Oil Escape Into the Pacific Ocean Without Notice?new

One of the big surprises to emerge out of the Refugio Oil Spill is that the pipeline owned by Plains All American Pipeline is the only one in all of Santa Barbara County not to have an automatic shut-off valve. Not coincidentally, it happens to be the only pipeline over which the county Energy Division has no safety and inspection oversight authority.

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