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Sacramento County Jail
Closed 1989LowLow
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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
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
8/100
Low concern8/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 3/10
What the score is responding to:
- · In-custody-death signal in sources
- · Severe-conditions keyword in sources
This facility scores 8. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 6 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
Data completeness
42%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7396975)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Sacramento County Jail. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sacramento-county-jail
Chicago
"Sacramento County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sacramento-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-sacramento-county-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Sacramento County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sacramento-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-23}
}