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Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.
The construction of the Men's Central Jail was finished in 1963. The original building was designed to house 3,323 inmates. [10] In 1976, an addition was added to the structure at the cost of $35 million, [11] and by December 1990, inmate capacity was 5,276.
There are at least 18 active deputy gangs within the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. [28] The 1992 Kolts Commission report said they were found "particularly at stations in areas heavily populated by minorities—the so-called 'ghetto stations'—and deputies at those stations recruit persons similar in attitude to themselves." [29]
There were calls for OPS to be merged with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) in 1992 and 1997, [2] but the attempts have been repeatedly rebuffed by its officers, the Board of Supervisors, or LASD for various reasons. The primary reason cited was the inability of the Executive/Command Staff to perform the Administrative ...
A lawsuit details alleged assaults, dating from the 1970s through 2018, that spanned a wide swath of L.A. County's once vast and now mostly shuttered juvenile hall system.
The inmate workforce performs critical fuel-reduction projects year-round and are at times in the path of fires. California's inmate firefighter crews are dwindling just as the state starts to ...
A new lawsuit accuses a former Lancaster deputy of using the Rattlesnakes 'deputy gang' to threaten his ex, among other misconduct.
The first known deputy gang to exist in the public eye was that of the "Little Devils" in 1970, based out of the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. Deputies of that gang were responsible for violence against protesters during the National Chicano Moratorium March on August 29, 1970. Three years later, a list of 47 deputies with the red devil ...