CASTAIC – Seven staff members and at least two inmates were injured in an altercation at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic Thursday.
Detention center staff were conducting security checks in a dorm at about 3:05 p.m. when an inmate assaulted a deputy, according to Deputy Miguel Meza of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
Multiple inmates joined in the scuffle following the initial assault and additional deputies were called to the scene for assistance.
Backup deputies deployed pepper spray and more than 20 inmates were exposed, Meza said.
Six deputies and one custody assistant were taken to hospitals with minor injuries while two inmates were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, said Deputy Shawn Du Busky of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
The jail was locked down for an unknown time following the assault.
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Detention says
Thugs attack thugs.
Tim Scott says
Generally accurate, if what you are calling ‘thugs’ is “people involved in illicit enterprises so they have no access to the conveniences provided to legally operated business.” When agreements break down in that environment there is no arbitration, no small claims court…there’s just people working out their own differences. So yeah, the vast majority of crime isn’t just “randomly landing on the unsuspecting out of the blue.”
Oh…wait…you were probably using “thug” a different way, because you are probably just a racist sort throwing a slur…I forgot this was the AVTimes for a second.