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Santa Rita Jail is a county jail located in Dublin, Alameda County, California, and operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. With a design capacity of 3489, [ 2 ] Santa Rita is one of the largest jails in the United States and larger than many California state prisons .
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office operates one jail. Santa Rita Jail, located in Dublin, California, is the primary facility that houses most people arrested or convicted of crimes in Alameda County. The Glenn Dyer Detention Facility, also known as the North County Jail, located in Downtown Oakland was closed in 2019 for budgetary reasons.
The following counties do not have jails: Alpine County: [125] jail services are contracted to El Dorado County and Calaveras County.; Sierra County: [126] this county does not have an official jail tracked by the Board of State and Community Corrections, but the Sheriff's website says that "as of March 17, 2015 the Sierra County Jail began operating as a Temporary Housing Facility".
Yuri Brand, 39, who had schizophrenia, was jailed on a non-violent offense at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, where staff knew of his diagnosis and housed him with the facility’s general ...
In California, county jails are overseen by the local sheriff's department. Other forms of punishment for a misdemeanor conviction include being under the supervision of a probation officer or a fine.
After four terms as Sheriff running unopposed, Ahern was defeated by over 21 percent in the June 2022 primary by Yesenia Sanchez, an Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy. Conditions at Santa Rita jail were cited as a factor. [11] [17] [18] Sanchez campaigned on the promises to bring accountability and reform to the department. [18] [19]
Alameda County sheriff's deputies are urging prosecutors to charge three teenagers allegedly involved in luring an 18-year-old to San Leandro and then killing him as adults.
County: county jails, usually run by county sheriffs and sometimes run by a county-level department of corrections City : city jails run by the city police department Most people incarcerated in county and city jails are in pre-trial detention and have therefore not been convicted of a crime.