A collection of letters, memorandums, memos, reports, government documents, news articles, photos and other related items. Examples are: Stapled packet containing corresp. (Feb.-Mar. 1975) from Thomas W. Sefton (Pres., S.D. Trust & Savings Bank), Congressman Wilson & Paul T. Walker (Regional Dir., Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Dept. of Justice) re/ criticisms leveled at “the luxuriousness” of the new Federal Prison in San Diego & the Bureau’s response; stapled copies “Memorandum of Call” (12/13/74) & letter (12/16/74) from The Acting Deputy Admin. for Special Projects, GSA re/ EPA guidelines for the proposed Federal Youth Center in San Diego; 1 letter (10/15/74) from Norman A. Carlson (Dir., Bureau of Prisons) to Congressman Wilson & dedication ceremony invitation for this 500-inmate facility, to be held on Nov. 15, 1974; “Memorandum For File” (8/20/74) & “Memorandum of Call” (8/19/74) re/ “George Wilkinson of the Bureau of Prisons...advised today that the San Diego Federal Prison should be completed November 1;” news clipping--Otto J. Bos, “10 Officers To Get Reprimands” (The San Diego Union, 8/14/74); stapled copies of letters (6/74) from George W. Ingersoll (Dir., Juvenile Institutional Services, S.D. County), Congressman Wilson, Roger Honberger (S.D. County) & constituent Mrs. Midge Bradford re/ Juvenile Dentention Facilities in S.D. County & the cost for services & care; draft copies of “Radio Broadcast March 7, 1973” by Congressman Wilson re/ “the Fourteen Million Metropolitan Correction Center in Downtown San Diego,” copies of 2 phone message slips (3/5/73) from GSA to Wilson’s office re/ contract awards for Metropolitian Correction Center in S.D. -- “structural steel frame work...$1,966,500” & “excavation, underpinning, shoring and bracing...$141,400;” 1 copy of Bob Wilson Reports (5/72); “Memo For File” (1/30/73) & office note re/ “GSA will be seeing initial construction bids for the Metropolitan Correctional Center on January 30;” small, stapled packet containing corresp. (Ap. 1969-July 1972) from Harold G. Sadler (Trucker, Sadler & Bennett, Architecture, Planning, Engineering) & from Congressman Wilson re/ the firm’s award for the new correctional facility & thanking the Congressman & his staff for their help over the years; “Memo For File” (6/27/72) & office notes re/ Wilson’s recommendation for the architectual work on the new correctional center; collection of office notes, “Memo For File,” & letters (Feb.-Mar. 1972) re/ consideration of architectural firms competing for the design work on the Metro. Correctional Facility; stapled copies of letters (May-June 1972) from Congressman Wilson & Ruth G. Helton (Criminology student, SDSU) re/ Bureau of Prisons proposed projects in San Diego area; stapled copies of letters (May-June 1972) from Congressman Wilson & C.J. Paderewski (Architecture & Engineering) re/ possible “joint venture” for the new Correctional Center; small, stapled packet containing 1 letter (2/15/72) from Congressman Wilson, attached draft copy, “Memo For File” (1/24/72) & office notes re/ Bureau of Prisons, GSA & processing to obtain acreage for the Youth Facility near Camp Elliot & site acquisition in downtown S.D. for the Correctional Center; 1 letter from constituent Charlie C. McDaniel & Wilson’s reply (Oct.-Nov. 1971) re/ discussion about prison reform with reference to violence, Attica & the “‘tiger cages’...used in South Vietnam prisons;” stapled copies of letter (11/3/71) from Jerris Leonard (Administrator, Law Enforcement Asst. Admin., Dept. of Justice) & atttached copies of “Grant Award” by the California Council of Criminal Justice to the City of San Diego Police Department (11/5/71 through 3/14/72) for $115,787, photocopy of “Discretionary Grant Project Summary” & 2 page photocopy of “Special Conditions” for this grant to “alleviate overcrowded conditions currently existing in the San Diego County Jail by providing funds for re-opening the San Diego City Jail;” photocopy of news article by Steve Casey, “penal chief plans model facility here,” Tribune (10/27/71) & letter (7/28/71) from Roger F. Honberger (Dep. Admin. Officer, S.D. County) to Congressman Mahon re/ “The Senate restored the Administration’s request for a new San Diego Federal Prison Detention Center in the Justice and Other Agencies Appropriation Bill...a $1.959 million line item for site acquisition and planning;” copies of corresp. (10/71) from Paul Tsompanas (Adm. Asst. to Wilson) & Gary R. Mote (Chief, Office of Facilities Dev., Bureau of Prisons) re/ attached copy of AIA Journal (9/71) featuring “Prisons: The Changing Outside View of the Inside;” 1 letter from George C. Hatch & Associates, Inc. & Wilson’s reply (10/71) re/ “a rumor that the Federal Government is expecting to build a prisoner detention unit in conjunction with the Court House and Federal Building complex now being designed;” 1 letter (10/5/71) from Francis B. Peacock (V.P., Frank L. Hope & Associates) to Paul Tsompanas re/ help provided by Wilson’s administrative assistant concerning the correctional facilities and the Bureau of Prisons; stapled packet containing corresp. from Congressman Wilson, C.J. Paderewski (A.I.A.), J.J. Clark (Acting Dir., U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Herbert E. Hoffman (Office of the Dep. Attorney General) & photocopy of news article from The San Diego Union, June 18, 1971 re/ planning for the 150-man detention facility for federal youth offenders proposed for S.D.; copies of news release from the Office of Congressman Bob Wilson (9/30/71) re/ “the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is considering San Diego as a possible site for a West Coast Youth facility....The facility’s annual payroll would total about $1.3 million;” 1 letter (9/24/71) from Z. Stephen Grzegorek (Site Acquisition Coordinator, U.S. Bureau of Prisons) & Wilson office memo (9/10/71) re/ info. on a meeting scheduled for October 14 of personnel to discuss the “Bureau’s hopes to locate a West Coast facility in San Diego on a surplus Camp Elliot property;” 1 letter (9/23/71) from Norman A. Carlson (Dir., U.S. Bureau of Prisons) to Wilson re/ Wilson’s efforts to facilitate the youth detention center in S.D.& a resume of the expenditures, personnel, objectives, etc. of the proposed institution; 2 photos of the proposed Youth Detention Facility; 1 letter from constituent Robert E. Herschelman & Wilson’s reply (8/71) re/ “crowded conditions at the San Diego County Jail...The overcrowding of the Jail is caused partly by the large number of Federal prisoners housed in the Jail;” 2 letters (7/29 & 7/30/71) to Wilson from Congressmen Mark Andrews & George H. Mahon (Chairman, Committee on Appropriations) re/ “funds for site selection and planning for the Federal Prisoner Detention Center in San Diego;” copies (including draft) of Congressman Wilson’s letter (7/27/71) to various members of the House Conferees on the Appropriation Bill requesting support for an item added in the Senate version of the bill which “calls for $1.9 million for site selection & planning for a Federal Prisoner Detention Center in San Diego;” copies of pages S11419-S11421 with emphasis on the Senate committee recommending restoring the $1.9 million to provide relief to a critical law enforcement & correctional problem in S.D.; small, stapled packet containing corresp. (May-July, 1971) from Norman A. Carlson (Dir., U.S. Bureau of Prisons), constituent Floyd W. Cocking & Wilson’s reply re/ Mr. Cocking’s inquiry on the “costs for the fiscal year 1972 request for the San Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center;” selected pages from Hearings Before A Subcommittee of the Committee On Appropriations House of Representatives Ninety-Second Congress First Session...Part I The Judiciary Department of Justice, pp. 1051-1070 re/ details on “Building and Facilities,” including the proposed San Diego Correctional Center, “ priorities, fiscal year 1972...Total $60,606,000;” “Memo For File” (6/30/71) re/ “Rooney Appropriations Subcommittee denied planning funds for the Federal Prison...the Bureau of Prisons has appealed this deniel of funds in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee;” stapled packet containing corresp. (4/71) from Congressman Cederberg, Frank T. Bow, Mark Andrews, Bob Wilson & “Memo To Boss From Paul” re/ “it may be well to write to our Republican friends to insure that these [prison detention] Centers will not be cut from the budget request in any economy move;” small, stapled packet containing corresp. (Feb.-Mar. 1971) from Congressman Wilson, Norman A. Carlson (Dir., Bureau of Prisons) & constituent Peter K. Nunez re/ the proposed Metropolitan Correctional Center & attached photocopy (2 p.) of “Proposed New York City Metropolitan Correctional Center;” stapled packet containing corresp. (May 1970-Feb. 1971) from Congressman Wilson, S.D. County Supervisor Jack Walsh, Municipal Court Judge Douglas R. Woodworth & photocopy of news article, “$40.8 Million Sought For Federal Facility Here,” Evening Tribune (1/28/71) re/ County of San Diego Inter-Departmental Correspondence on the subject of the “Custody of Prisoners,” over crowding, prisoner deaths & grand jury investigations; 2 Memos (9/28 & 10/2/70) re/ information on Federal Prisoner Detention Center in S.D.; stapled packet containing corresp. (Aug.-Oct. 1970) from Congressman Wilson, O.W. Todd, Jr. (Foreman, S.D. County Grand Jury) & J.T. Willingham (Acting Dir., U.S. Bureau of Prisons) re/ “housing of Federal prisoners in the San Diego County Jail...and requesting that cost of jail construction be shared by the Federal Government;” stapled packet containing corresp. (Ap.-June, 1969) from Myrl E. Alexander (Dir., Bureau of Prisons), Paul Tsompanas (Adm. Asst. to Wilson), John W. Chapman (Acting Adm., GSA), C.R. Hagan (Acting Dir., Bureau of Prisons), Wayne B. Colburn (U.S. Marshal) & “Memo To Boss From Marge” re/ overcrowding in county jail, federal prisoners detained there and reimbursing S.D. County at $6.75 per inmate day; 1 letter (3/28/69) from F.J. Morey (Chief Adm. Officer, S.D. County) to Wayne Colburn (U.S. Marshal) & attached 14 page photocopy of a communication from C.A.O. Morey to the Board of Supervisors (3/5/69) re/ “Law Enforcement Status Report.”