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California Jails & Detention Centers
Every county's jail system works differently — some run one central facility, others split custody across a dozen city police departments and Sheriff's stations. Choose your county below to find the real facility, the real contact, and the courthouse the case moves to next.
Table Of Contents
Counties We Cover
Every county with live jail and facility information — the full directories and the ones still being built.
How Jail Systems Differ
Why Los Angeles County needs a city-by-city directory and smaller counties don't.
What Every Directory Includes
The same standard in every county: real facilities, real contacts, honest flagging.
FAQs
Why some counties go deeper than others, and how we help when your county isn't built out yet.
Counties We Cover
Los Angeles County's directory is fully built out — 88 cities, the county facilities, every LASD station. The counties below it already carry their real jail information on their inmate-search pages; their own full directories are being built to the same standard.
Los Angeles County
Full Directory LiveThe full directory: all 88 cities, the county-level LASD custody facilities, every Sheriff's station, and the courthouse each case routes to next.
Sacramento County
Coming SoonThis county's real jail and facility information already exists on its inmate-search page — we haven't yet built it out into its own full directory the way Los Angeles County has. Call us and we'll find the right facility directly.
Kern County
Coming SoonThis county's real jail and facility information already exists on its inmate-search page — we haven't yet built it out into its own full directory the way Los Angeles County has. Call us and we'll find the right facility directly.
Fresno County
Coming SoonThis county's real jail and facility information already exists on its inmate-search page — we haven't yet built it out into its own full directory the way Los Angeles County has. Call us and we'll find the right facility directly.
Alameda County
Coming SoonThis county's real jail and facility information already exists on its inmate-search page — we haven't yet built it out into its own full directory the way Los Angeles County has. Call us and we'll find the right facility directly.
San Diego County
Full Directory LiveAll seven Sheriff's detention facilities — including the four that share one Otay Mesa address at 446 Alta Road — with real addresses, the countywide visiting policy, and the central custody line.
Orange County
Full Directory LiveAll five county custody facilities — the Intake Release Center, Central Men's and Women's Jails, Theo Lacy, and the Musick facility — with real addresses, visiting rules, and the courthouse each case routes to.
Ventura County
Coming SoonThis county's real jail and facility information already exists on its inmate-search page — we haven't yet built it out into its own full directory the way Los Angeles County has. Call us and we'll find the right facility directly.
How California's Jail Systems Differ County To County
There's no single template for how a California county runs custody. Los Angeles County splits the work between 42 Sheriff-contract cities and 46 independent police departments, on top of a countywide Sheriff's custody system with 7+ major facilities. Sacramento, Kern, and Fresno each run a much smaller, more centralized system — often just one or two county facilities handling nearly every booking countywide, since fewer of their cities run their own police departments.
That difference matters directly for a bail search: in a small county, there's rarely any ambiguity about where someone ends up. In a county the size of Los Angeles, the real challenge is knowing which of dozens of possible starting points applies — which is exactly why LA County's directory is broken out city by city and station by station, while smaller counties don't need that same depth yet.
What Every County Directory Includes
The same standard applies in every county we build out — no filler, no guessed facts.
County-Level Detention Facilities
The real county jails — with street addresses and a plain-language account of what actually happens at each one, from intake to release.
City Police Jails & Holding
Where applicable, the individual city police department jails and short-term holding facilities where an arrest by an independent department actually starts.
Sheriff's Station Pages
Where applicable, the individual Sheriff's stations that police contract cities — the first stop for an arrest in a station's service area.
The Courthouse Each Case Routes To
The jail is where someone is held; the courthouse is where the case goes. Every directory names the courthouse each facility's cases actually move to.
Honest Flagging, Never Guessing
Anywhere a fact couldn't be verified against an official source, we say "not yet confirmed" — never a guessed address, hours, or courthouse assignment.
California Jail Directory FAQs
We know families have urgent questions when a loved one is in custody. Here are answers to the questions we hear most.