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Butte County Jail Overview

Butte County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates Butte County Jail under the authority of the Sheriff-Coroner. The facility holds people booked after local arrests, people brought in on warrants, parole and probation holds, court remands, out-of-county warrants, pretrial detainees, and sentenced county inmates. It is not the right search source for a person already transferred to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation custody, federal custody, or immigration detention.

The jail uses maximum, medium, and minimum classifications. Classification means staff assess security, housing, safety, and program placement after booking. The jail handbook also notes that administrative separation may be used for safety, security, or protection. Sheriff Kory L. Honea's office runs the local jail system, while Butte County Superior Court and the District Attorney control later case filings, court dates, and formal charge changes after an arrest.

The BCSO Corrections Division page is the source for the jail services screenshot below.

The county page is useful because it groups jail capacity, visitation, inmate money, mail, phone, bail, VINE, and related service links in one official location.

Butte County Jail Population

The jail's published capacity and population figures come from several county and high-authority sources, and the date matters. BCSO describes the facility as a 614-bed county jail with an average daily population over 540. The Butte County FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget gives a completed-year 2024 average daily population of 496 and 8,782 bookings. Those figures are not identical measures, so they should not be merged into one number.

Butte County budget material also describes a 134-bed jail expansion with a new intake center, updated housing units, and more medical and mental-health treatment capacity. Local reporting in January 2026 said the expansion was opening in phases because staffing was still a limiting factor. That context matters for Butte County Jail custody searches because an online booking log may tell who was booked, while facility operations, housing, and release timing can still require a direct jail call.

Lookup at Butte County Jail

The main official online source is the BCSO Booking Logs page. Butte County publishes weekly public booking-log PDFs by date range. These are not the same as a live inmate profile roster. The linked CitizenRIMS route for incarcerated people exists, but BCSO's configuration showed public inmate and arrest photo features disabled, so the documented public path is the weekly log plus jail phone, BCSO Records, VINE, and court follow-up.

1. Open the BCSO Booking Logs page and pick the week that matches the likely booking date.
2. Open the PDF and search within the file by last name, first name, inmate number, booking date, or charge code.
3. Read all rows for the person because one booking may include several charges, warrants, holds, or bail entries.
4. Call Butte County Jail if the arrest is too recent for the posted PDF, if release status is unclear, or if a transfer may have occurred.
5. Use VINELink for custody notifications and use the court portal after formal charges are filed.

The BCSO Booking Logs page is the source for the booking-log screenshot below.

The date-range layout is the key local detail: a same-day custody question may not be answered by the current PDF.

Butte County Jail Contact

Use the jail numbers for custody and facility questions, and use BCSO Records for public records and booking-record questions. The county contact page lists the jail separately from the Records/CCW Unit. The handbook and public booking logs also show a second correctional facility number, so both numbers are useful with context.

For records not visible in the weekly booking logs, the BCSO Records Office maintains incident reports, bookings into jail, and reporting statistics to the California Department of Justice. The county also uses a Public Records Center for California Public Records Act requests.

Butte County Jail Visits

Butte County Jail visitation is organized through the official Visiting Schedules hub and related rules. Official visiting materials document two visits per week per inmate, 45 minutes each. Public rules say there is one Saturday and one Sunday visit period, while the exact housing-unit schedule is kept in current PDFs for the Main Jail and Expansion/NORA areas. Visitors need valid government photo ID, and minors must be with a parent or legal guardian with documentation.

People on active SWAP, ACS, or Sheriff's Parole, people recently released from incarceration, and some people with felony or parole history may need prior permission or may be barred. After a denial, the visiting approval form must be sent in writing to the jail operations lieutenant. Note: Confirm the current housing schedule before travel because the expansion added separate visiting schedules.

Butte County Jail Mail

Butte County Jail uses a separate inmate mail address. The handbook says housing location and inmate ID are not needed for regular mail, but the inmate name must be included. Incoming mail is opened and searched for security. Legal mail is opened only in the incarcerated person's presence to check for contraband and is not read. Books, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines must come directly from a publisher or book supplier; hardbacks are not accepted, and the handbook says Amazon packages or books are not accepted.

Money for Butte County Jail trust accounts can be deposited through Access Corrections online or mobile, the 24-hour lobby kiosk, or by phone at 866-345-1884. The handbook lists a $300 daily deposit maximum and a $950 total trust account balance limit. Commissary is separate from bail and is used for allowed items such as stamps, paper, hygiene items, and snacks.

Butte County Jail Bail

BCSO states that the jail accepts cash, money orders, cashier's checks, or a bond from a licensed bail bondsman. Cashier's checks and money orders should be made out to the specific court from which the person is bailing out. The public booking log may show a Bail field with an amount, $0.00, or NO BAIL, but that field is only a starting point. Holds, remands, parole or probation matters, court orders, and out-of-county warrants can prevent release even when a dollar figure appears.

The Butte County Superior Court publishes the 2026 Jail Bail Schedule for offenses committed in the county. Court schedules and court orders can change what the jail may accept. For a current release question, confirm the bail amount, the court of payment, any holds, and the accepted payment form before going to the jail.

No-bail hold

A custody status where a payment will not release the person without court or agency action.

Remand

A court order placing a person into jail custody.

Surety bond

A bond posted through a licensed bail bondsman rather than a direct full cash payment.

Butte County Jail Booking

Intake at Butte County Jail creates the local booking record. A person may enter through probable-cause arrest, arrest warrant, bench warrant, Ramey warrant, remand, parole hold, probation hold, or out-of-county warrant. Staff secure property and funds, complete identity and booking entries, conduct medical and mental-health screening, and classify the person for housing. The handbook says licensed medical staff are on duty 24 hours for basic and emergency medical, dental, and mental-health care.

After booking, jail phones are available during posted housing-unit hours. County material lists 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; the handbook says most housing-unit phones may be available after cleaning until 11:30 p.m. when authorized. Calls use ICSolutions. Family and friends can also use GettingOut for video visitation where available through county-linked services. Staff do not accept incoming calls or take messages for incarcerated people.

Release timing depends on the court, papers, holds, and facility processing. The handbook says release after court papers can take up to eight hours if no holds exist. Scheduled sentence-completion releases normally occur in the morning, while release-date calculations after full sentencing may take one to four weeks.

About Butte County Jail

Butte County Jail sits within a long local jail history. Butte County was incorporated in 1850, early jail sites moved with the county seat, and the Sheriff's Office moved to the current County Center Drive area in 1965. The modern corrections system includes inmate support services, medical and mental-health care, classification, transportation, extradition, road crew, religious services, AA and NA, GED study guides, vocational training, the law library, Alternative Custody Supervision, Day Reporting Center programming, and the Sheriff's Work Alternative Program.

County budget material ties the jail population to staffing, court transport, and facility expansion. The Court Security Division manages custody for jail inmates awaiting court hearings and screens large public courthouse traffic. The jail handbook also notes a consent decree in Butte County Superior Court Case #84429 and describes grievance channels for housing, food, hygiene, medical care, classification, discipline, programs, phone, mail, visiting, and sexual-abuse allegations.