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Background

The Fresno County Jail is a detention center made up of three different adjacent complexes, located at 1225 M. Street, in downtown Fresno, California, operated by the Fresno County Sheriff's Department. The facility is made up of the Main Jail, the North Annex Jail, and the South Annex Jail and is connected by an underground system of tunnels providing easy and safe transportation of inmates. These tunnels also connect to the nearby Fresno County Courthouse. As of March 31, 2020, the Fresno County Jail had 2,746 inmates with 2,490 being male and 256 being female. The Fresno County Jail has recorded the highest number of deaths out of any county jail in California.

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Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 22 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.

Known issues

ProPublica reported that the Fresno County Jail is considered more deadly, citing the 2018 death of inmate Lorenzo Herrera who was choked to death, and a subsequent lawsuit involving another inmate's death.

Contact & address

No public contact details available.

Conditions Risk Score

Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated

10/100
Low concern10/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
0/30
Structural flags
5/15
Death signals
5/15
Conditions text
0/10

What the score is responding to:

  • · Substantial documented known-issues record
  • · In-custody-death signal in sources

This facility scores 10. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 8 points above national average.

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Reports

  • propublica15 Aug 2019

    gain,” Alexis Amezcua, an attorney representing Herrera’s family in a lawsuit against the county, said in an interview Tuesday. At the time of Herrera’s death, Pacheco was in the Fresno County Jail awaiting trial on the 2015 robbery and assault case . Pacheco broke into the backyard of a pregnant woman’s home in Fresno, forced her inside, choked her and then stole thousands of dollars before

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  • propublica24 Apr 2019

    California Tried to Fix Its Prisons. Now County Jails Are More Deadly. — ProPublica FRESNO, Calif. — On the night of Jan. 17, 2018, Lorenzo Herrera walked into the Fresno County Jail booking area and sat down for an interview. Yes, he had a gang history, an officer wrote on his intake form. But Herrera, 19, said he did not expect problems with others inside the gang pod he’d soon call home. His

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Data completeness

20%

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World Prisons. (2026). Fresno County Jail. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fresno-county-jail
Chicago
"Fresno County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 25, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fresno-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-fresno-county-jail,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Fresno County Jail},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fresno-county-jail},
  urldate = {2026-10-25}
}