Officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station confirmed there is no jail break from Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic Friday morning. A man wearing a yellow jumpsuit was seen walking on the 5 Freeway in Castaic, Sheriff’s officials said in a social media post. “No inmates have escaped, and all inmates are accounted for at Pitchess Detention Center,” Sheriff’s ...

A faulty alarm in Stevenson Ranch connected to Pitchess Detention Center was triggered Thursday morning.  Around 8:35 a.m. Thursday, first responders received reports of an alarm sounding near O’Hara and Cavenaugh Lanes in Stevenson Ranch, according to officials. “An alarm was going off, it is one of the alarms when there is an escapee, but there was no escapee,” said ...

An incarcerated person has been reported missing from Los Angeles County Fire Acton Conservation Camp north-east of Santa Clarita.  A minimum security inmate is reported by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to have “walked away” from a fire camp Monday afternoon.  “Mathew Wells was discovered missing at 2:45 p.m. during an afternoon headcount,” said CDCR in a statement.   A ...

The Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic has made revisions to its escape policy for future prison breaks, officials said, including the addition of a procedure for using Facebook and Twitter to warn the Santa Clarita Valley. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. In the past, Pitchess has relied on its six “World ...