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Siskiyou County Jail Overview

The Siskiyou County Custody Division identifies Siskiyou County Jail as the main adult detention facility for the county. It is operated by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office / Custody Division and functions as the local booking, housing, visitation, mail, phone, commissary, and custody-information center. The researched facility map describes the jail as local adult detention for pretrial and sentenced custody. The same county material says it holds pretrial felons, sentenced misdemeanants, sentenced felony violators, people waiting for transfer or evaluation, and both male and female incarcerated people.

The current building opened in 1988. County custody material says it began with 68 beds and was later expanded to 104 beds. A 107-bed figure also appears in the Day Reporting Center material and the 2022 Civil Grand Jury jail report, so the current county custody page is the best source for the present public capacity statement. Siskiyou County Jail is described as self-contained, with food and medical services on site. Jail leadership listed in custody materials includes Lieutenant Paul Grove and Lieutenant Wade Berryhill, while the facility itself is part of the sheriff's custody operation rather than a state prison or federal jail.

The official custody page is the best starting point for the facility's service links. The county custody division page shows the jail address, capacity context, average population, and links for custody information, visitation, mail, phone calls, commissary, messages, and the Day Reporting Center.

Siskiyou County Jail Population

Siskiyou County Jail operates close to its stated bed count. The current county custody page reports 104 beds and an approximate daily average population of 101 inmates. The BSCC trend report listed a 2023 average daily population of 94, with Q3 2023 at 95. Vera's 2021 county fact sheet listed 78 average daily population, 1 county jail, 0 state prisons, and 0 juvenile facilities in Siskiyou County. Those outside reports are useful for trend context, but the county page is the direct source for the present facility summary.

The 2022 Civil Grand Jury described strain on the Siskiyou County Jail, including staffing shortages, cell limits, COVID-era spacing concerns, and a 107-bed capacity figure with 87 people housed at the time of the report. That finding is best read as dated oversight context. It does not replace the current custody page, but it helps explain why the county also uses the Day Reporting Center, work program, and electronic monitoring for eligible people.

Siskiyou County Jail Roster Lookup

Current Siskiyou County Jail custody is searched through the county's In Custody Information gateway and the Citizen RIMS incarcerated people list. The county gateway requires users to read an in-custody disclaimer before continuing. Citizen RIMS is current custody only. Its own text says only people currently in custody appear, and the research inspection confirmed that booking photos are disabled for Siskiyou County Jail inmate records.

The roster is most useful when a person may still be held at Siskiyou County Jail. It is not a complete past-booking archive, court docket, state-prison locator, federal locator, or juvenile detention record source. For a released person or older booking, use the jail phone line, Sheriff's Records Division, or the GovQA Public Records Act request process. For a person sentenced to CDCR, use CIRIS instead of the county jail roster.

1. Open the county in-custody disclaimer and continue to the Citizen RIMS portal.
2. Select the incarcerated people module for Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office records.
3. Search by last name, first name, or review the current custody list when available.
4. Open the person's row to check booking number, booking date, arresting agency, arrest location, bail, status, and charges.
5. Use the exact name and booking number when calling Siskiyou County Jail or filing a records request.

The public app exposes first-name and last-name filters, plus date and sort fields in the underlying roster request. A new Siskiyou County Jail booking can appear before every field is final because the inspected data model includes a booking-complete status. That is why phone confirmation remains useful when a search involves a same-day arrest, a bail question, or a possible transfer.

The Citizen RIMS incarcerated people page is the public roster screen for current Siskiyou County Jail custody.

Siskiyou County Jail Contact

Call the jail before travel when the question involves current custody, visit eligibility, same-day booking status, or whether a person has already been released or transferred. Ordinary family messages are not taken by correctional staff, except death notifications, so phone calls to the facility should focus on custody, visit, mail, and service questions rather than personal message delivery.

For older custody records, incident records, or a booking-photo request, the Sheriff's Office links the GovQA Public Records Act request portal. The sheriff page says Public Records Act requests are forwarded to the Records Division and answered within ten days. A practical request should include the person's full name, booking number if known, booking or arrest date, and the specific record being requested.

Siskiyou County Jail Visitation

Siskiyou County Jail uses unit-based non-contact public visitation for incarcerated people who are not on disciplinary status. The official visitation page says jail staff may regulate visiting, public visits are recorded, and no person may visit the same incarcerated person more than once per visiting day. Visitors must be at least 18 unless an immediate family minor is with an adult. Cell phones, cameras, tablets, and other electronics are not allowed in visiting.

The unit schedule matters because the public roster does not expose a housing unit in the inspected sample, while the official jail visitation schedule is organized by unit. Call the jail if the roster does not show the housing information needed for a visit.

Official and attorney visits are different from public visits. The inmate orientation manual states professional visits with attorneys, investigators, law enforcement, clergy, and similar officials are allowed daily from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Protected attorney, investigator, and clergy calls should be identified to custody staff because ordinary calls may be monitored for security.

Siskiyou County Jail Mail

Mail for Siskiyou County Jail must use the incarcerated person's booked name and ID number. The researched mail rules say incoming mail needs the sender's name and stamped or printed return address, with no address labels. Legal mail is opened and inspected in the incarcerated person's presence. Other mail is opened and inspected for contraband. Mail is distributed daily except Sundays and holidays.

Allowed items include ordinary letters and postcards, money orders or cashier checks made out to the incarcerated person, newspapers from the publisher, magazines from the publisher, new softcover books ordered from Amazon or Barnes & Noble unless another vendor is approved, and no more than five 4x6 photos per letter. The official jail mail rules prohibit items such as Polaroids, cash, personal checks, stickers, stamps, envelopes, greeting cards, colored paper letters, used books, hardcover books, spiral books, plastic-coated items, third-party mail, paint, glue, perfume, glitter, and packages without Jail Commander approval.

Phone calls and commissary now use current county service pages rather than older manual vendor references. The current jail telephone page names NCIC Inmate Communications and states collect or prepaid calls to unblocked numbers are allowed from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. The commissary page links Access Securepak and tells the public not to bring care packages to the jail.

Siskiyou County Jail Booking

Booking at Siskiyou County Jail starts after an arrest, warrant arrest, or court remand by the sheriff's office, a city police agency, or another law enforcement agency. Citizen RIMS records show separate arrest and booking timestamps, original arrest agency, arrest location, booking agency, booking number, booking-complete status, charges, bail, demographics, and status. The roster can show SCSO, Yreka Police, Tulelake Police, or other original arresting agency codes.

Intake includes property handling, medical screening, classification, and entry into jail rules. Classification means custody staff decide the person's housing and supervision needs. The public roster sample did not show a housing unit or next court date, so the roster should not be treated as the full jail file. Court dates and formal case outcomes belong in the Siskiyou Superior Court portal or clerk records. A person who is sentenced to state prison or a CDCR fire camp should be searched later through CDCR CIRIS, not the county jail list. More detail about the county roster fields is available on the Siskiyou County jail inmate records page.

Siskiyou County Jail Programs

The Day Reporting Center and Alternative Sentencing program is a key part of Siskiyou County Jail operations. The county DRC page says AB 109 realignment changed the county jail's role by keeping many non-prison-eligible sentences in local custody. Because jail capacity was limited, the Community Corrections Partnership used alternative sentences such as the work program and electronic monitoring. The page says an average of 50 offenders are assigned to alternative sentencing.

Local DRC services include batterer's treatment, parenting classes, job readiness through SMART Works, Moral Reconation Therapy groups, interactive journaling, and High School Diploma/GED prep with Yreka High School. Local work projects are unusually specific: the DRC garden can produce more than 800 pounds of produce, eggs come from laying hens cared for by participants, and project work includes firewood with the Veteran's Assistance Program and woodworking such as split-rail fences, signs, and tables.

Jail conditions are also covered in official materials. The inmate orientation manual states the jail goal is a safe and secure environment that promotes fair, impartial, and humane treatment. It discusses medical and dental services, female medical services, grievances, discipline, inmate clothing and identification rules, and living-area standards. The Sheriff's Office also maintains an in-custody death posting process consistent with California law.

Siskiyou County Jail Records

Siskiyou County Jail records are local custody records. They are different from CDCR records, federal prison records, immigration detention records, and juvenile detention files. A current adult inmate in the Yreka jail should appear in Citizen RIMS if the record is public and active. A sentenced person moved to CDCR should be checked in CIRIS. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through the BOP locator, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. Siskiyou youth who require detention are placed through Tehama County Juvenile Detention Facility arrangements and are not adult jail roster records.

California public-record law supports public access to specified arrestee information, including name, physical description, arrest and booking date, bail, holding location, charges, and holds when disclosure is not limited by safety or investigation concerns. Siskiyou's public portal applies the booking-photo limits noted in AB 994 and Penal Code 13665 by disabling arrestee and inmate photos online. The Siskiyou County inmate population hub explains how the county jail, Deadwood Conservation Camp #23, and juvenile detention placement fit together.