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Sacramento County Jail

Closed 1989LowLow
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Aging · 4mo ago
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[ Jail in California, United States The Sacramento County Jail is one of the [county jails for the Sacramento County area of the US State of California, serviced by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. It is located on 651 I Street, approximately 100 meters from Downtown Commons. Completed in 1989,[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_County_Jail#cite_note-1) the jail complex includes the Lorenzo Patiño Hall of Justice of the Sacramento County Superior Court.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_County_Jail#cite_note-2) The jail replaces the Sacramento County Sheriff's Jail, formerly located at 620 I Street, which was demolished after the completion of this complex in 1989.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_County_Jail#cite_note-3) The jail has been operating under a federal consent decree since 1993.\ _[citation needed_\]

Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1989

Closed 1989

Figures from official sources · verified 3 Jul 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Operator

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Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1989

Region

CA

Security level

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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

A ProPublica report from June 2019 discusses violence, mental illness, stress, and suicide at the Sacramento County Jail, citing an incident involving a mentally ill inmate.

Contact & address

651 I Street, Sacramento 95814
+1 916 874 6752
Official site

Conditions Risk Score

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

13/100
Low concern13/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
0/30
Structural flags
5/15
Death signals
5/15
Conditions text
3/10

What the score is responding to:

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

This facility scores 13. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 11 points above national average.

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Reports

  • propublica13 Jun 2019

    ing someone in a place where you don’t have anything to do is likely to lead to violence, mental illness, stress, suicide, all sorts of things.” On Dec. 14, 2014, a deputy at the Sacramento County Jail was conducting overnight rounds in a pod for sick prisoners where Edward Larson was housed. Larson, 54, was a mentally ill homeless man jailed for failing to register as a sex offender. Jail staff

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Data completeness

42%

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@misc{worldprisons-sacramento-county-jail,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Sacramento County Jail},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sacramento-county-jail},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}