south facility is an outside jail for low to medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists and drug offenders. we find that the linear jail doesn t work for us anymore. what we have here is more of a podular design, with the staff in the middle and the inmates around the outside. a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990 when the first president bush helped dedicate the jail s opening.
south facility is an outside jail for low to medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists and drug offenders. we find that the linear jail doesn t really work for us anymore. and what we have here is more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990 when the first president bush helped dedicate the jail s opening. one of this nation s founding fathers, said, if men were
it s run by more than 13,000 employees and is the largest sheriff s department in the world. it houses more than 20,000 inmates in eight different facilities, all waiting for trials, transfers, or release. let s go inside l.a. county jail s supermax facility that holds the city s most violent inmates. we ll show you how the jail detectives solve crimes committed behind bars and how violent inmates are learning to rehabilitate themselves. but first we travel 40 miles north of downtown los angeles as we continue our look behind the walls of l.a. county jail. nestled in the high desert mountains and a 40-mile bus ride north of downtown los angeles is the peter j. pitchess detention center. named after a former sheriff, the pitchess detention center is comprised of four jails set on 2,500 acres. south facility is an outdoor dormitory jail for low-to-medium security inmates.
2,500 acres. south facility is an outdoor dormitory jail for low-to-medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists, and drug offenders. we find that the linear style jail really doesn t work for us anymore, and what we have here is we have more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990, when the first president bush helped dedicate the jail s opening. one of this nation s founding
employees and is the largest sheriff s department in the world. it houses more than 20,000 inmates in eight different facilities, all waiting for trials, transfers, or release. let s go inside l.a. county jail s supermax facility that holds the city s most violent inmates. we ll show you how the jail detectives solve crimes committed behind bars and how violent inmates are learning to rehabilitate themselves. but first we travel 40 miles north of downtown los angeles as we continue our look behind the walls of l.a. county jail. nestled in the high desert mountains and a 40-mile bus ride north of downtown los angeles is the peter j. pitchess detention center. named after a former sheriff, the pitchess detention center is comprised of four jails set on 2,500 acres. south facility is an outdoor dormitory jail for low-to-medium security inmates.