When Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw last year embraced a plan to build a vocational high school on land near the long-shuttered county stockade, Hispanic activist Jorge Garrido believed his dream to train teens for well-paying jobs was within reach.
Then, three weeks ago, Bradshaw’s top jail administrator said the agency didn’t want to give up any of the county-owned land that surrounds the stockade near the Palm Beach County Fairgrounds.
The nearly 40 acres is one of the few sites in the county where a jail or other law enforcement facilities can be built, Col. Alfonso Starling wrote in a March 20 letter to county officials, who control the land…