I lived in Lancaster for 15 years it WAS a great place to live, after they built the prison there it started to go downhill very quickly families of the prisoners moving into the area to be close for visiting purposes!!! That AND the illegal immigration situation has turned the area into a dump!!! It was a GREAT area at one time with Boeing and Lockheed Martin there, real estate was very reasonable for CA. and the weather wasn’t extreme for the high desert!!! I agree it is sad to see such a nice area go to hell in a hand basket BUT it has happened all over the state!!!
I believe that would be CSP LA County. Knowing what I know about California prisons, it’s possible, he may have recently paroled from there.
Any contact with police, is an automatic trip back to the big house. Maybe that’s why he wanted to get away. Who knows for sure?
Some folks refer to Lancaster as “Sandblaster”.