Jails of San Francisco, California
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San Francisco Sheriff's Department
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department is the sheriff's department for the City and County of San Francisco. The department has 850 deputized personnel, and support staff....
of the City and County of San Francisco. The system comprises eight jails, with approximately 55,000 annual bookings administered by 800 deputy sheriffs.
Facilities
Two of these jails are located in the Hall of Justice on Bryant Street. One of the jails is located in ward 7D/7L in San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital is the main public hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center serving San Francisco and northern San Mateo County...
. Two jails are located at the San Bruno Complex Program Facility, located ten miles south of San Francisco.
The newest San Francisco jail complex is located near the Hall of Justice on Seventh Street. Opened in 1994, the complex is actually two jails. This main complex jail is a "direct supervision facility [that] has become a national model for program-oriented prisoner rehabilitation." The second, which acts as the main intake and release facility for the city, was praised by Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning architecture critic Allan Temko
Allan Temko
Allan Bernard Temko was a Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and writer based in San Francisco.Born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey, Temko served as a U.S...
as "a stunning victory for architectural freedom over bureaucratic stupidity."
The first jail established in San Francisco was demanded by the Alcalde, later first mayor John W. Geary and set up in a beached brig the Ephemia on the shore of Yerba Buena Cove. Later there was a jail on Broadway and jails within the two halls of justice on the east side of Portsmouth Square
Portsmouth Square
Portsmouth Square is a one-block park in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, that is bounded by Kearny Street on the east, Washington Street on the north, Clay Street on the south, and Walter Lum Place on the west....
. The fourth floor of the post-earthquake Hall of Justice
Hall of Justice
A Hall of Justice is an occasional term for a city's police headquarters, and exists in cities across the United States. In some cases, the facility may also house courts as well as jails...
on Kearney Street served as a jail until 1961, when the present Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street opened.
The Ingleside Jail, opened in 1872 on the present site of the San Francisco City College. It served as the largest jail in the city. When the former County Jail #3 opened in San Bruno in 1934, the Ingleside Jail was demolished and the construction of City College commenced. The former County Jail #3 closed in 2006, after over 70 years of service, replaced by the modern direct-supervision facility, County Jail #5.
Intake & Release
- County Jail #1 (425 7th Street)
Classification
- County Jail #2 (425 7th Street)
Housing
- County Jail #2 (425 7th Street)
- County Jail #3 (Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant Street, 6th Floor)
- County Jail #4 (Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant Street, 7th Floor)
- County Jail #5 (1 Moreland Drive, San Bruno) 37.627°N 122.46°W (New state-of-the-art facility opened in 2006)
- County Jail #6 (1 Moreland Drive, San Bruno)
- County Jail #7 (Ward 7D/7L of San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco General Hospital is the main public hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center serving San Francisco and northern San Mateo County...
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