Jails of San Francisco, California
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San Francisco County operates eight jails, with approximately 55,000 people booked annually. 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 Hospital. Two jails are located at the San Bruno Complex Program Facility, located ten miles south of San Francisco.
The jails are administered by 800 deputy sheriffs of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. The department is headed by the San Francisco Sheriff, currently Michael Hennessey.[1]
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-winning architecture critic Allan Temko as "a stunning victory for architectural freedom over bureaucratic stupidity."[1]
- Intake & Release
- County Jail #9 (425 7th Street, near Hall of Justice, San Francisco)
- Classification
- County Jail #8 (Hall of Justice, 6th Floor, San Francisco)
- Housing
- County Jail #1 (Hall of Justice, 6th Floor, San Francisco)
- County Jail #2 (Hall of Justice, 7th Floor, San Francisco)
- County Jail #3 (San Bruno)
- County Jail #7 (San Bruno)
- County Jail #5 (San Francisco General Hospital)
- County Jail #8 (425 7th Street, San Francisco)
