Over half of all Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases are at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic as of Monday, officials said. At least 951 coronavirus cases have been confirmed at two facilities at Pitchess Detention Center, making up just over 60 percent of the 1,577 total cases across the Santa Clarita Valley as of June 1, according to the Los ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has claimed the inmates at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic have reached “herd immunity” as coronavirus cases grow in the jail. Testing is increasing through the county jail system, with the goal to test the entire jail population, currently over 12,000. As of Wednesday, about 600 inmates have been tested at Pitchess with 40 ...