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Shortly after the M&P's adoption, LASD deputies experienced a rash of accidental discharges in the field, later attributed by the Inspector General's office to insufficient weapon transition training for sworn personnel. In the past few years the LASD has also been issuing the M&P9 2.0 handgun as well, which is an upgraded version of the M&P9. [69]
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.
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.
A sheriff's deputy who was part of a task force focused on keeping Los Angeles County's jails free of drugs and gang activity was arrested last week and accused of smuggling drugs into a county ...
Mother Jones described the facility as "overflowing" and the deputies as prone to attacking inmates "unprovoked" or for "the slightest infractions". They report an allegation that one inmate injured in an attack by multiple deputies was marched down a jail module as one deputy yelled "gay boy walking" and then beaten and raped by other inmates ...
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Before the prison opened in 1993, Los Angeles County hosted no prisons but accounted for forty percent of California's state-prison inmates. [9] "Most of Lancaster's civic leaders and residents" opposed the building of the prison, and four inmates escaped from LAC in its first year of operation. [10]
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