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On July 7, 2020, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4–0 to pursue a plan to close the Men's Central Jail within 12 months. [8] In voting to eventually close the 57-year-old facility, county supervisors said they wanted to focus on community-based programs to treat mental health challenges of those entering and exiting the jail ...
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%
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 only state prison located in the county, it is also referenced as Los Angeles County State Prison, CSP-Los Angeles County, and CSP-LAC. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Only occasionally is the prison referred to as Lancaster State Prison , which was particularly avoided in 1992 partly to ease the stigma for Lancaster.
A Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a case against a man facing life in prison because the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department held him in cells without beds or blankets ...
The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex in Los Angeles, California. [1] The facility is located at 450 Bauchet Street, in Los Angeles, California and is operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The facility consists of two towers, a medical services building, and the ...
[7] This inmate population makes the CDCR the largest state-run prison system in the United States. [8] Regarding adult prisons, CDCR has the task of receiving and housing inmates that were convicted of felony crimes within the State of California. Adult inmates arriving at a state prison are assigned a classification based on the offense ...
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.