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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 mission of the Conservation Camp program is to "support state, local and federal government agencies as they respond to emergencies such as fires, floods, and other natural or manmade disasters." Over 3,000 incarcerated people work at the conservation camps each year, including men, women, and juveniles, all of whom have volunteered for the ...
The Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed and, on July 26, 2007, convened the instant three-judge district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2284. As of 2008–09 fiscal year, the state of California spent approximately $16,000 per inmate per year on prison health care. [20]
California State Prison, Los Angeles County: LAC Los Angeles: 1993 Yes 2,300 3,158 137.3% California State Prison, Sacramento: SAC Sacramento: 1986 1,828 2,363 129.3% California State Prison, Solano: SOL Solano: 1984 2,610 3,752 143.8% California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran: SATF Kings: 1997 Yes 3,424 4,844 141.5%
OAKLAND, Calif.—Among the thousands of firefighters battling the wildfires scorching the state are volunteer inmates who work alongside them in the smoke and heat. This decades-old system would ...
The California state prison system is a system of prisons, fire camps, contract beds, reentry programs, and other special programs administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Division of Adult Institutions to incarcerate approximately 117,000 people as of April 2020. [1]
Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on Jan. 10, 2025, in Los Angeles, CA. The Palisades fire had grown to over 22,000 acres and has destroyed thousands of ...
Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons. What will the measure do?