Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson is backing away from a controversial site for a proposed corrections campus along the Sacramento River after months of opposition from nearby residents. The sheriff has been seeking to expand the county's alternative custody program to help address overcrowding at the Shasta County Jail. The Shasta County program would be the first operated through a partnership between the state and a county. "Shasta County inmates, if they don't go to this program, they would just be coming back to Shasta County with nothing, with no rehabilitation, with no programming." The proposed campus could also have included a new, expanded county jail, though the county does not currently have enough funding for that project.