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James A Musick Facility
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James A Musick Facility is a county jail located in Orange County, California. Rated capacity: 1,322. Reported population: 614. Security level: Minimum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
James A. Musick Facility is a minimum-security county jail in south Orange County, California. The county jail is on an unincorporated pocket of land, surrounded by the city of Irvine on three sides (including Alton Parkway to the northwest) and bordered by Lake Forest's Bake Parkway to the southeast. Despite being on unincorporated land, the jail is listed as being in Irvine. The 1,250-bed facility houses inmates charged with lower-level offenses such as intoxicated driving and drug possession. The jail is named in honor of James A. Musick, the Sheriff of Orange County from 1946 to 1974.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,322
Current population
614
Occupancy
46%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
California
Security level
Minimum
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
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 46% · peers avg: 93% (50%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1322 · peers avg: 547 (+142%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q105081879)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). James A Musick Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/james-a-musick-facility
Chicago
"James A Musick Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/james-a-musick-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-james-a-musick-facility,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {James A Musick Facility},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/james-a-musick-facility},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}