NEW FENCE FOR LAUNDRY AT PITCHESS MEASURE MEANT TO STOP PRISON ESCAPES.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer CASTAIC - A 12-foot-high fence will be erected around the massive laundry at the Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Office of Independent Review, which delivered its annual report last week, called the security plan a sensible one. The OIR OIR Office of Institutional Research OIR Online Insertion and Removal (Cisco) OIR Office of Insurance Regulation OIR Old Irish OIR Office of Intramural Research OIR Office of Information Resources OIR Office of Instructional Resources found no negligence on the part of county sheriff's deputies who run the 10,000-inmate Pitchess jail complex in Castaic, noting that appropriate security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security were in place. Two men escaped just days apart this summer. One was recaptured hours later in a Valencia neighborhood, the other remains at large. In 2004, three laundry workers escaped while on duty and were recaptured heading south on Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. 5. In a separate incident, a fourth attempted escape, but was captured on the jail grounds hiding in a laundry truck. The problem, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, was that the security system is designed to alert guards to an escape, not to physically block inmates from fleeing. Fences do surround the sprawling complex in a remote canyon east of I-5, but escapees have breached them in the past and fled into neighborhoods or out of the area with a friend waiting nearby in a car. Inmates wear electronic bracelets that alert deputies when they are tampered with or when worn outside a permitted area. Compounding the escape risk is the fact that inmates who are minimal flight risks are a rarity in jails as budget cuts have limited jail beds to the worst offenders, the report said. So the latter are used to work the laundry, which processes thousand of pounds of bedding, towels and clothing daily. ``Now, (the Sheriff's Department) must lower its eligibility requirement and accept an 'edgier,' potentially more dangerous class of inmates as laundry workers in order to continue to fill the inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. worker staffing needs,'' the report said. Patricia Farrell Aidem, (661) 257-5251 pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com |
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