named after a former sheriff, the pitchess detention center is comprised of four jails on 2,500 acresl for low to medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists and drug offenders. >> we find that the linear jail doesn't work for us anymore. what we have here is more of a podular design, with the staff in the middle and the inmates around the outside. >> a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990 when the first president bush helped dedicate the jail's opening. >> one of this nation's founding father said, "if men were angels, no government would be necessary." well, i'm sure that no one here would suggest that men were angels, and that's why there is government. to write the laws we live by and correctional facilities like this one for the people who break