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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.
North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Located approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles , it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess ), in Castaic, California .
It is staffed and operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CDCR will not renew the lease for California City Correctional Facility, terminating the contract in March 2024 and ending the use of that facility as a state prison. [5] California Correctional Institution: CCI Kern: 1954 2,783 3,516 126.3%
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies check a vehicle at the northern entrance to the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, California. On August 9, an inmate at the facility was struck in the ...
The following counties do not have jails: Alpine County: [125] jail services are contracted to El Dorado County and Calaveras County.; Sierra County: [126] this county does not have an official jail tracked by the Board of State and Community Corrections, but the Sheriff's website says that "as of March 17, 2015 the Sierra County Jail began operating as a Temporary Housing Facility".
Since 1852, the department has activated thirty-one prisons across the state. CDCR's history dates back to 1912, when the agency was called California State Detentions Bureau. In 1951 it was renamed California Department of Corrections. In 2004 it was renamed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", [11] which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails.
Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) is a California State Prison for men. [3] It was opened in June 1987, and covers 866 acres (350 ha) located in Ione, California.The prison has a staff of 1,242 and an annual operating budget of $157 million.