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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.
In 1851, California activated its first state-run institution. This institution was a 268-ton wooden ship named The Waban, and was anchored in the San Francisco Bay. [4] The prison ship housed 30 inmates who subsequently constructed San Quentin State Prison, which opened in 1852 with approximately 68 inmates. [5]
Inmate Name Register Number Details Alejandro Avila V88742 Perpetrator of the 2002 Murder of Samantha Runnion in which Avila kidnapped and raped the 5-year-old before killing her. [3] [4] [5] Richard Delmer Boyer: C98101 Convicted of the 1982 murder of elderly couple Eileen and Francis Harbitz. [6] [7] Vincent Brothers: F90651
The San Francisco Hall of Justice Complex. County Jails #3 and #4 on 6th and 7th floors, and Jails 1 and 2 in the undulating structure on the north side. Former County Jail 3, San Bruno, 1934 - 2006. This jail was demolished in 2012. San Francisco County Jails are operated by the Sheriff's Department Custody Division of the City and County of ...
The United States Penitentiary, Atwater (USP Atwater) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Merced County, California. [1] The institution also includes a minimum-security satellite camp. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
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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.
In June 1991, an inmate died; some inmates "refused to report to their prison jobs" to protest the prison's medical care "which they said was linked to the death". [10] Later, an autopsy was conducted to show that the inmate "died of acute inflammation of the pancreas," not "an overdose of the tranquilizer Haldol" as some inmates believed. [11]