Sutter County Jail Inmate Roster Search

Sutter County Jail Overview

Sutter County Jail is operated by the Sutter County Sheriff's Office through the Jail Division and Corrections Section. The jail is at 1077 Civic Center Boulevard in Yuba City, near the Sutter County courthouse complex. It is the county's primary and only mapped local detention facility, so local arrests by the sheriff, Yuba City Police Department, California Highway Patrol, probation, parole, and other agencies generally resolve first through this jail if the person is booked in Sutter County.

The facility holds pretrial detainees, sentenced county-jail inmates, court commitments, people held on warrants, probation and parole holds, work-release-eligible inmates, and people held for local or outside agencies. It is not a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison, and it is not a federal or immigration detention center. A Sutter County case can later move into CDCR, Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Marshals, or ICE systems, but the local roster is the first official lookup channel for people in current Sutter County Jail custody.

The sheriff's Corrections Section material says the original jail was constructed in 1977 and later expanded or upgraded through a kitchen renovation, a 148-bed minimum facility, a 62-bed felony dorm, and a 52-bed maximum-security single-cell unit completed in 1999. Housing categories in the roster configuration and visiting schedule include general population, special housing, single-cell housing, medical, medium and minimum dormitory areas, female housing, holding, observation, and safety cells.

Sutter County Jail Capacity and Population

Sutter County Jail is commonly listed with a 352-bed capacity in BSCC-derived capacity summaries, but the sheriff's official facility history does not publish one consolidated current rated-capacity line. For that reason, the 352-bed number should be read with the caveat that the sheriff source separately documents the later 148-bed minimum facility, 62-bed felony dorm, and 52-bed maximum-security single-cell addition.

The inspected public Zuercher roster returned 263 records for the current in-custody date on May 31, 2026. That figure is useful as an inspected roster count, not an official average daily population. Vera's 2021 Sutter County fact sheet reported a 154 average daily county jail population, 3,455 county jail admissions, 82 percent pretrial share, and 42 percent of the jail population with mental-health needs. Vera also reported one county jail and zero state prisons or juvenile facilities in Sutter County for 2021.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Sutter County Jail

For current local custody, use the sheriff's Sutter County Zuercher incarcerated-person search. The portal is a county jail roster for people currently in custody at the Sutter County Jail facility. It is free and no login was observed in the research inspection. For notification rather than detailed roster fields, use VINELink, which the sheriff identifies as a custody-status and victim-notification channel.

1. Open the Zuercher incarcerated-person search and keep the current "In Custody On" date if you are checking today's jail population.
2. Enter the person's name, usually in a last-name or full-name search, and avoid adding too many race or sex filters if the first search returns no match.
3. Read the roster row for name, age, race, sex, arrest date, held-for-agency, release date, and hold reasons.
4. Use the hold-reasons row for charge, warrant, commitment, agency, bond, no-bail, parole, probation, or judge-set status details.
5. Call Sutter County Jail at (530) 822-7300 or the roster notice number at (530) 822-7302 if a tentative release date, housing detail, or custody status must be confirmed.

The Zuercher page text says booking photos are not displayed pursuant to AB 994. Older sheriff wording may describe the custody search as including photographs, but the current inspected portal suppresses booking photos and the sampled mugshot fields were blank. If the person was transferred to state prison after a Sutter County conviction, search CDCR CIRIS. If the person is in sentenced federal custody, use the BOP inmate locator. Immigration detention belongs in the ICE detainee locator, not the Sutter jail roster.

Sutter County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail contact information for immediate custody, visiting, bail, release, and lobby questions. Records requests for copies or releasable booking information may route through the Sheriff's Records Unit at the same Civic Center Boulevard address or through the county's NextRequest public-records portal. The Records Unit public counter is separate from the 24-hour jail operation and has weekday business hours.

Visiting Someone at Sutter County Jail

The sheriff's visiting rules describe no-contact visits, walk-in sign-up before visiting hours, and no appointments. Visitors need valid identification; expired or lost ID is not accepted unless the visitor has another valid ID such as a driver's license or passport. Visitors may not bring items for inmates or send items out through the visit. Clothing with gang insignia, revealing clothing, swimming suits, extremely short or form-fitting shorts, and other apparel jail staff find inappropriate may be refused.

Each incarcerated person is allowed no fewer than two visits totaling at least one hour per week. The general rule is one 30-minute visit per inmate per day, except minimum-security rules may differ. Attorneys, probation officers, clergy, and law enforcement may visit 24 hours a day on official business with credentials, and contact visits may be allowed when staffing and security permit. Housing can affect the schedule, so confirm the current housing category with the jail if the roster is unclear.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Sutter County Jail

Mail must use the incarcerated person's name and Sutter County number. Incoming and outgoing correspondence is inspected for contraband, and the envelope should contain only the names, inmate number, and sender and recipient addresses. Photos must be unadorned, not Polaroid, and no larger than 3 by 5 inches. Paperback books, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals must arrive through U.S. mail directly from a publisher, book seller, or vendor. Visitor-delivered publications and packages are not accepted.

No official Sutter jail video-visitation vendor or remote-video schedule was located in the researched sheriff pages, so do not assume a video visit option is available unless jail staff confirm it.

Booking and Intake at Sutter County Jail

A typical Sutter booking begins with arrest or court commitment by a local or outside agency, followed by transport to Sutter County Jail if the person is being held locally. Intake creates the custody record that can later appear in the Zuercher roster. Public roster fields can include name, age, race, sex, arrest date, held-for-agency, hold reasons, bond type and amount, and release date. Housing or cell block information may exist internally, but sampled public records often left the cell-block field blank.

Hold reasons are the most important part of the public row. They may show fresh charges, warrants, commitments, CDCR or parole holds, probation violations, added-in-court warrants, orders for removal, no-bail status, judge-set status, or bond amounts. Bail may be posted in the jail lobby by contacting the control room deputy. The researched release-procedure material lists U.S. currency, cashier check, money order, or a bail bond agency as options for eligible bail. Cashier checks and money orders must be payable to "Sutter County Consolidated Courts," and personal checks are not accepted.

Sutter Superior Court explains that a defendant in custody has a right to arraignment, where the judge explains rights and charges, bail may be raised, lowered, or set, a plea is taken, and counsel may be appointed if the defendant cannot afford one. The District Attorney starts the formal criminal action by filing a Complaint, Information, or Indictment. That means the jail roster describes custody and booking status, while the court record controls formal case filings, hearing dates, and case outcomes.

When the Sutter Jail Roster Is Not the Right Search

The Sutter County Jail roster is for county jail custody. If a person is convicted and transferred to a California state prison, search CDCR CIRIS by name or CDCR number. CIRIS is designed for state-prison records and can show the person's name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment counties, admission date, and parole-board hearing information when available. A CDCR or parole hold on the Sutter roster does not automatically mean the person is physically in a CDCR prison.

No BOP prison, ICE detention facility, or dedicated U.S. Marshals detention center was located in Sutter County. Federal and immigration systems still matter because a Sutter County arrest can involve a federal hold, immigration detainer, or later transfer. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal Bureau of Prisons custody, contact the U.S. Marshals Eastern District of California for federal pretrial custody questions when appropriate, and use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration detention. Those systems do not replace the county jail roster for local booking details.

Programs and History at Sutter County Jail

The Sutter County Sheriff's official jail-services material identifies several programs for incarcerated people. These include Moral Recognition Therapy, Coping with Anger, Peer Relationships, GED preparation, Hepatitis C education, Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous, Christian Recovery, Liberty for Captives, and Outside Work Release. The outside work-release program is for eligible incarcerated people with minor offenses and less than 180-day sentences who may work eight hours per day on community projects. It is part of jail custody services, not a separate mapped facility page.

The jail's history is tied to the county civic center campus in Yuba City. The original 1977 building has been supplemented by later minimum, felony dormitory, and maximum-security components. The Jail Division also includes Court Bailiff Services and the Transportation Unit, so the facility's work extends beyond housing. Corrections staff support court security for Sutter Superior Court proceedings, inmate transportation, custody operations, and specialized sheriff functions. Official sources did not identify a current Sutter sheriff mobile app with inmate or warrant lookup, so use the Zuercher roster, VINELink, NextRequest, and court portal rather than an app-only search.