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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 ] The jail has been operating under a federal consent decree since 1993.
A major fight involving about 150 inmates occurred at the prison in September 1996, with 13 inmates injured and 17 shots fired by officers (one of which struck and killed an inmate). [15] Local officials opposed a 2001 law and two 2005 bills that might eventually have led to a transfer of death row operations from San Quentin State Prison to SAC.
Sacramento: 1880 Yes for women 2,066 men, 403 women 2,694 men, 276 women 130.4% capacity (men's facilities), 68.5% capacity (women's facilities) FSP is the only California State Prison currently housing men and women. High Desert State Prison: HDSP Lassen: 1995 Yes 2,324 3,286 141.4% Ironwood State Prison: ISP Riverside: 1994 Yes 2,200 3,203 145.6%
Downtown Sacramento’s Main Jail opened in 1989 and was built to hold over 2,000 people. It was state-of-the-art, likened to a small city with all its amenities, and designed to house low-level ...
The plan indicates the downtown jail as the main evacuation point. If the downtown jail wasn’t available, California prison facilities and other county jails in the region may be used with ...
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies arrested three inmates Wednesday, including a convicted murderer, following an attack in which an inmate was stabbed five or six times at the Sacramento ...
The Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (RCCC) is the primary custody facility for inmates sentenced to County Jail from the Sacramento County Courts. An increasing percentage of the inmates are pre-sentence detainees housed at RCCC to keep the population at the Main Jail below the limit set by Federal decree.
Five inmates in downtown Sacramento County Main Jail have died in sheriff’s office custody in 11 weeks. In the most recent case, two men were found unresponsive in their cell on July 26.