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Arapahoe County Jail

Arapahoe County Jail

The first Arapahoe County Jail was a one-room jail house opened in 1865. The current Arapahoe County Jail was opened in 1987. In 2002, the Arapahoe County Jail was rededicated to honor former Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan. The almost three hundred thousand square feet facility has the capacity to hold one thousand one hundred sixty six inmates.
The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility has been recognized by the National Institute of Corrections. The National Institute of Corrections holds The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility up as a model of direct supervision design. The direct supervision practiced in the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility allows detention officers to be placed in open day rooms with the inmates in order to facilitate more direct and effective supervision of inmate.
In addition to design elements, the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility has also been recognized for its programs and features. The televised visitation system was the first of its kind in Colorado. The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility also features a computer training center. 
One of the most praised programs that the Arapahoe County Sheriff Department uses at the Arapahoe County Jail is A-STEP, a work release program for inmates. A collaborative effort between law enforcement, schools, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, mental health facilities, and the District Attorney’s Office has resulted in the Juvenile Assessment Center, which attempts to help youth that are considered at risk. 

Adams County Jail

Adams County Jail

The Adams County Jail has been in operation in Brighton, Colorado since 1985. The initial construction of the Adams County Jail cost twenty million dollars. In its original configuration, the Adams County Jail consisted of five modules, each of which featured six pods. 
Each of the modules is self-contained and has its own recreation yard, as well as independent heating and cooling systems. In its original design, the facility was intended to house four hundred eighty inmates. The modules had varying security levels, up to and including a maximum security module.
Since the original construction, the Adams County Detention Facility has expanded to house more than sixteen hundred inmates. The jail has a self-contained kitchen on its grounds, as well as medical units, either of which is capable of providing the respective services to the inmates in the facility.
The Adams County Detention Facility is considered state of the art. It has served as a model for many other counties when designing their own detention facilities.
The Jail Division of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office is responsible for the operation of the Adams County Jail. The employees of the Jail Division include lieutenants, sergeants, deputies, detention specialists, with responsibilities that range from providing court services, maintaining records, overseeing bonding, supervising the accounts of the Adams County Jail, delivering mail, transporting prisoners, serving as detectives, running the library, coordinating and distributing supplies, working as seamstresses, and coordinating various programs.

Placer County Jail

Placer County Jail

Placer County Jail in Auburn, California opened in July 1985. When it was built, it cost four and a half million dollars. The original construction of the Placer County Jail called for the housing of one hundred forty eight inmates. This population limit was reached in two months. By 1990, facing overcrowding, the inmate population had increased to 272 inmates. A court order prompted the construction of a two hundred sixty bed addition to the jail which expanded the capacity of the Placer County Jail to three hundred fifty two inmates.
The minimum security division of the Placer County Jail was housed in buildings that were originally constructed as World War II army warehouses, built in 1941. Two of these warehouses were used to house male inmates, while a third was for female inmates. There are also three medium security dorms, two of which can house ninety two inmates each, a third which can house forty four inmates. There is one maximum security module which has a capacity of thirty two inmates.
On most days, the Placer county jail has a greater than ninety percent fill rate. Most weeks, the Placer County Jail is required to practice a forced release program.
The Corrections Department which oversees Placer County Jail has begun efforts to transition from the staff at the jail from being staffed by Deputy Sheriffs to staffing by Career Correctional Officers. 

Marin County Jail

Marin County Jail

The Marin County Jail is one of the main operational locations of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office Detention Services Bureau. The Marin County Jail is found on the Civic Center grounds in San Rafael. In 2006, more than eight thousand five hundred individuals were booked in 2006. 
On average the Marin County Jail housed three hundred eighteen inmates on any given day in 2006. In collaboration with the Probation Department, the Marin County Jail oversees more than two hundred individuals who are involved in county parole or work release programs at any given moment.
The Marin County Jail is responsible for providing housing for all individuals who have been booked for violating laws in Marin County, or have been sentenced by the Marin County Court system to serve a jail term, which is usually one year or less.
No individuals under the age of eighteen are housed in the Marin County Jail except when those individuals have been sentenced as adults. The Marin County Jail houses both male and female inmates.
In some cases, individuals who are on route from one jail or prison to another holding facility may be housed in the Marin County Jail while they are being transported from one facility to another. The Marin County Jail operates in accord with state laws and the standards set by the state Corrections Standards Authority. 

California County Jail

California County Jail

LA County Jail

LA County Jail is located in downtown Los Angeles. One of the largest challenges facing LA County Jail is that there is larger shares of individuals who come into LA County Jail have mental disorders. As a result, every inmate who enters the LA County Jail system receives a mental health screening.

Fresno County Jail

Fresno County Jail is overseen by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. One of the highlights of the Fresno County Jail system is that it focuses on the rehabilitation of the inmates in its care. Fresno County Jail has a main building and an annex.

Sacramento County Jail

Sacramento County Jail is located in downtown Sacramento. SAC County Jail has housed several famous inmates, most notable the Unabomber. In light of budgetary shortfalls, the Sacramento County Jail has sought to find opportunities to save money, such as paroling inmates or consolidating into a single building.

Madera County Jail

Madera County Jail is run by the Madera County Department of Corrections. The Madera County Jail is located in Central California. Madera County Department of Corrections is devoted to ensuring the safety of the inmates, corrections officers, and community at large by operating the jail in according to California law.

Solano County Jail

Solano County Jail is one of the nine County Jails in the Bay-Delta area, and of the fifty eight across the state. The Solano County Jail operates in accord with the standards established by Corrections Standards Authority, a state organization.

Tehema County Jail

Tehema County Jail can house 227 inmates at a time. Inmates held in Tehema County Jail, as is the case with any California County Jail may be serving a sentence handed down by the local court, awaiting trial, or being transported from one jail to another, whether between state facilities or County Jails.

Placer County Jail

Placer County Jail includes a maximum security module, two modules to house male inmates, and another for female inmates. Placer County Jail can hold three hundred fifty two inmates. The modern facility has been expanded multiple times since its origins in World War II army warehouses.

Marin County Jail

Marin County Jail is governed by the Marin County Sheriff's Office Detention Services Bureau. Marin County Jail works with the Marin County Probation Office to oversee the sentences of more than two hundred individuals who have been sentenced by the Marin County Court.

Kern County Jail

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is responsible for the governing of Kern County Jail. More than one quarter of the staff of the Kern County Sheriff's Office works as deputies in the Kern County Jail. Individuals in the Kern County Jail may be serving a sentence, awaiting trial, or being transported between jails.

LA County Jail

LA County Jail

The Los Angeles County jail system has faced allegations that it is in fact not a correctional facility, but is instead the largest mental health hospital in the country. As a result of these complaints, and in order to more completely address the special needs of individuals with mental illnesses who come into contact with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which manages the LA County Jail, has worked in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health, which established an on-site Jail Mental Health Services.
Established in 1972, the Jail Mental Health Services allows individuals at the LA County Jail to provide mental health services to individuals who need mental health assistance. Of the twenty thousand inmates who are housed in the LA county jail system on a daily basis, approximately two thousand individuals are or have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. Ninety percent of these individuals in the LA County Jail System with mental problems are also in trouble due to substance abuse problems as well.
The main hub for mental health services in the LA County jail system for men who need mental health assistance is provided at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles, with mental health services provided for women are provided at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, fifteen miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
Every individual who enters into a LA county jail first receives a mental health screening.

Fresno County Jail

Fresno County Jail

The Fresno county Jail is located in the city of Fresno. The Fresno county jail is forced to handle so many inmates that it had to establish an annex. The north annex of the Fresno County Jail is also located in Fresno. The county jail is capable of holding more than sixteen thousand inmates between these two buildings.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office supervises the Fresno County Jail. The Sheriff’s Office is committed to a fully integrated criminal justice system, which ensures public safety. Within the Fresno County Jail System is dedicated to producing individuals who are able to integrate well into the community following their release. One of the goals of the Fresno County Jail System is to help individuals who enter into the system to develop trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
The Fresno County Jail offers individuals who enter into the program the opportunity to develop academic and life skills, including efforts to promote literacy, Adult Basic Education or General Education Development, English as a Second Language programs, and Life Skills programs. 
The Life Skills offered in the Fresno County Jail are lessons in cognitive thinking, work attitude and behavior, relationships, job searches, money management, and interpersonal skills. The Fresno County Jail System also provides opportunities for inmates to experience religious programs, chaplain services, law and recreational reading services, alcoholic and narcotics anonymous programs, and health/ wellness/ recreation services. 

Sacramento County Jail

Sacramento County Jail

The Sacramento County Jail is located in downtown Sacramento. Sac County Jail has been home to several famous inmates, including: Eric McDavid, an environmental activist and anarchist; Dorothea Puente, an American serial killer; Nikoly Soltys, an Ukrainian-American spree killer; Anerae Brown, also known as X-Raided, a rapper convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion robbery in 1992; and most famously of all, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
Sac County Jail is run by the Sacrament County Sheriff’s Department. It is near the Downtown Plaza in down town Sacramento. In order to minimize some of the costs associated with keeping inmates in the Sacramento county jail have been attempted to be reduced through a variety of methods. 
The first cost cutting method practiced by the Sac County Jail System was to close two alternative sites, and consolidate the inmate population in a single building, the main facility at the Sacramento County Jail building.
When closing the satellite facilities in the Sac County Jail System were insufficient to effect the desired budgetary savings, then the Sacramento County Jail System sought to determine if any of the inmates that were still being housed in the Sacramento County Jail System would be eligible for parole or for alternative methods of imprisonment. 

Madera County Jail

Madera County Jail

The Madera County Jail is located in the city of Madera, California. The Madera County Jail is located in Central California. The Madera County Department of Corrections supervises the inmates in the Madera County Jail. The vision of the Madera County Department of Corrections is the provide a safe and secure work and living environment for the staff and inmates that are in the Madera County Jail, and by extension to the community at large. 
The Madera County Department of Corrections seeks to ensure that all the individuals entrusted to the care of the Department of Corrections are treated lawfully, humanely, and professionally, and treat those individuals in a way that serves to foster confidence throughout the community.
While working in the Madera County Jail, the county Department of Corrections is dedicated to commitment, accountability, and professionalism. The Madera County Department of Corrections is devoted to their vision, values, and the citizens of Madera County as a whole. 
The Corrections Department working in the Madera County Jail exercises responsible and effective stewardship of the resources that are allocated to it in order to protect the community and care for the inmates. It also holds its employees to the highest standard of professional conduct while overseeing the inmates in the Madera County Jail. 

Solano County Jail

Solano County Jail

The Solano County Jail System is one of the fifty eight county jail systems in the state of California. The Solano County Jail is one of the nine county jails in the Bay-Delta region. The Solano County Jail is located in the County Capital of Fairfield.
The Solano County Jail System works closely with the Solano County Department of Probation, the Solano County District Attorney, the Solano County Family Violence Prevention Department, the Sheriff’s Department, and the Department of the Public Defender.
The Solano County Jail System serves to provide incarceration for criminal offenders in Solano County. 
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