Large collection of letters, post cards, telegrams & news clippings from San Diego residents regarding the construction of the Youth Correctional Center & Congressman Wilson’s replies. Some examples are: Copies of Western Union Telegram (9/23/75) from Masonry Contractors Assoc. of S.D. & Imperial Counties, Inc. & Congressman Wilson’s response (10/16/75) re/ “We are shocked by the stop notice on...project number 04-0593.F;” copy of letter (10/1/75) from Bill Martin (Pres., Assoc. General Contractors of America, S.D. Chapter) to President Gerald L. Ford re/ “I should like to express my deep dismay at your decision to terminate construction of the correctional institute at Tierrasanta here in San Diego....Unemployment in this sector is currently running over 30%;” copy of letter from James L. Ray (Mercy Hospital) to President Gerald L. Ford (10/1/75) re/ “Thank you for cancelling the Tierrasanta Prison Facility for Young Offenders;” small, stapled packet of corresp. from Charles G. Peter & Congressman Wilson’s response (Sept.-Oct. 1975) re/ Mr. Peter’s letter to President Ford indicating reasons (“this horrendus mistake”) for opposing the Tierrasanta location & photocopy of “Prisons Agency Breaks Rules,” The San Diego Union (9/20/75); stapled packet containing constituent Ralph L. Nelson’s letter (9/32/75), news clipping from The San Diego Union (9/20/75) & Congressman Wilson’s response (10/3/75) re/ opposition to the federal youth facility; copy of mailgram from Mr. & Mrs. C. Logan McKechnie & Congressman Wilson’s reply (9/75) re/ “Dear Mr. President ... please issue an executive order halting construction of a federal prison on Camp Elliott land in San Diego;” copy of telegram from R.P. Jackson & Congressman Wilson’s response (4/75) re/ “Stop ... prison unfair to property owners and children” & Wilson’s reminder that “For some time I have been attempting to persuade the Bureau of Prisons & the General Services Administration to move this facility to another site;” copy of corresp. from Helen Johnson (Corresp. Sec., PTA) & Congressman Wilson’s reply (3/75) re/ “This [area] is essentially a residential one with homes constructed for families of school age children;” small, stapled packet containing corresp. from S.D. City Councilman Jim Ellis, Mrs. Dorothy V. Kelly (Tierrasanta homeowner), Congressman Wilson, State Senator Jack Schrade & photocopy of news article “Study Favors Site at Camp Elliott,” Evening Tribune (1/1/75) re/ local officials search for an alternative site; “Memo of Telephone Conversation with Mr. Lloyd McKechnie (6/25/75)” re/ “ a constituent who...reported his displeasure at the location of the Youth Facility in Tierrasanta;” copy of corresp. from Lieutenant John E. O’Neill, Jr. (USN) & Congressman Wilson’s reply (4/75) re/ Lt. O’Neill’s recent return “from 202 day deployment to the Western Pacific and was dismayed to find that my neighborhood is to be the ‘proud’ recipient of a Federal Youth Facility. This facility will be within one mile of my home;” copy of Mailgram (4/19/75) & Congressman Wilson’s response (4/24/75) re/ “Please help stop construction Tierrasanta Youth Facility...planned within one mile of two housing developments. There is much open space east of San Diego;” copy of corresp. from Richard Rose (4/11/75) and Congressman Wilson’s reply (4/24/75) re/ Mr. Rose’s comments on the “frenzied action on the part of Tierrasanta Community Council,” criticizing the federal government & the vote seeking politicians who are opposing the Youth Facility; stapled copy of corresp. from Congressman Wilson to Norman A. Carlson (Dir., Bureau of  Prisons) (6/19/75) re/ Resolutions from the San Diego Bd. of Super-visors, the City Council & the Labor Council “expressing their opposition to the location of the Facility” at the Tierrasanta Subdivision. “I would like to make it unequivocally clear that I am supportive of these Resolutions.”