North County Correctional Facility

North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Located approximately 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess), in Castaic, California.

The facility's construction began in 1985, and it was formally dedicated on March 1, 1990 by then Sheriff, Sherman Block, and the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush. NCCF consists of five jails within the same facility, and it has an inmate population of about 3,800. It can provide for disciplinary segregation and clinic-level medical treatment.

The facility is commonly referred to as the "Flagship"; it was designed and constructed to be cost-efficient with regard to the ratio of staff members to inmates and vocational productivity. NCCF has a ratio of ten inmates to each staff member. The facility features educational, vocational and counseling programs. These programs have been designed to assist the facility's inmates in becoming self-sufficient within the law.

2006 riot

On Saturday, February 4, 2006, a prison riot at the facility injured over 100 inmates. Nine were critically injured, and eight had minor injuries. One inmate was pronounced dead at the scene. Numerous ambulances were summoned to the remote facility after fighting began and custody personnel deployed tear gas to quell the disturbance. No law enforcement personnel were injured in the riot. According to deputies, the four-hour riot was sparked by racial tensions generated outside the prison between Mexican and African-American gang members. In retribution for a conflict between these gangs and in a show of the reach of their power, Mexican gang leaders had successfully ordered Mexican prisoners within the NCCF compound to drop furniture items from several stories above onto unsuspecting African-American prisoners below, with whom they had no personal differences.

On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, two inmates, Jose Baldeno and Winder Barrios, were discovered missing during a 3:15 a.m. headcount. The two were captured several hours later.

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Prison riots and uprisings

Before 2000	1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion 1943 Featherston prisoner of war camp riot 1943 Sobibór extermination camp uprising 1943 Janowska concentration camp riot 1944 Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1959 Montana State Prison riot 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot 1971 Attica Prison riot 1974 Huntsville Prison siege 1976 HM Prison Hull riot 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot 1985 Badaber Uprising 1985 Oklahoma State Penitentiary riot 1986 West Virginia State Penitentiary riot 1986 Peruvian prison massacres 1987 Atlanta prison riots 1988 Fremantle Prison riot 1989 SCI Camp Hill Pennsylvania riots 1989 Polish prison riots 1990 Strangeways Prison riot 1990 Southport Correctional Facility riot 1991 Federal Correctional Institution, Talladega riot 1992 Carandiru massacre 1993 Southern Ohio Correctional Facility riot 1997 Khujand prison riot

From 2000	2000 F-type Prisons strike and riots 2001 Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 2003 Eagle Mountain riot 2004 Arizona State Prison Complex – Lewis riot 2006 North County Correctional Facility riot 2007 New Castle Correctional Facility riot 2008 La Mesa Prison riot 2009 Mexico prison riot 2011 HM Prison Ford riot 2012 Altamira prison brawl 2012 Apodaca prison riot 2012 Caracas prison riot 2012 Welikada prison riot 2013 Uribana prison riot 2013 Palmasola prison riot 2015 Kaohsiung Prison riot 2016 Topo Chico prison riot 2016 Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo riot

Coordinates: 34°27′06″N 118°36′38″W / 34.45167°N 118.61056°W / 34.45167; -118.61056

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