Anyone visiting Castaic Lake on Wednesday may have seen smoke and flames rising from across the water on the overcast day. However, this was no run-of-the-mill brush fire. It was a joint training drill organized by the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Inmates in bright orange jumpsuits carrying axes and shovels ...

An inmate who escaped from a correctional facility was located and arrested in Santa Clarita Friday afternoon.  California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials announced inmate Jorge Contreras, 35, who walked away on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025 from a Male Community Reentry Program (MCRP) facility in Los Angeles County was apprehended in Santa Clarita Friday afternoon. Contreras was received ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced Thursday the apprehension of an inmate who walked away from the Acton Conservation Camp on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Jessie Meza, 38, was apprehended without incident in Bakersfield at approximately 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. He will be rehoused at a prison and his case will be referred to the ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are searching for an incarcerated person who walked away from Acton Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County on Tuesday. At approximately 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, staff at the Acton Conservation Camp at 8800 Soledad Canyon Road discovered participant Jessie Meza was missing from the camp during a head count, according to the CDCR. ...

Over the weekend, an inmate was arrested in Santa Clarita after walking away from Francisquito Conservation Camp. On Sunday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced an inmate who had walked away from the Francisquito Conservation Camp in Santa Clarita on Thursday was taken into custody. Marcelo S. Caparrota, 53, was arrested without incident in Valencia by camp ...

California Senate Democrats in the Public Safety Committee continued their destructive path of placing convicted felons first through early prison release and refused to support Senate Bill 288, officials said Tuesday.  SB 288 would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to make the calculations of a prisoner’s early release public, including what the inmate did to earn ...

Santa Clarita WorkSource Center officials are hosting a Correctional Peace Officers recruitment in conjunction with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation  officials (CDCR). Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The event will take place on Thursday at the Santa Clarita WorkSource center from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. The free recruitment will identify candidates to ...