Lassen County Adult Detention Facility Custody

Lassen County Adult Detention Overview

The official Lassen County jail page identifies the Adult Detention Facility as a Type II local detention facility operated by the Lassen County Sheriff's Office. In California, a Type II jail can hold people pending arraignment, during trial, and after sentence. That means the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility is not just a short booking room. It is the first local custody point for many arrests and a local sentence facility for people ordered to serve time in county jail.

The jail receives people arrested or sentenced for state crimes in Lassen County. The county page lists several booking agencies, including the Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol, Susanville Police, Lassen County Probation, CDCR, Cal-Fire, Herlong Security, FBI, and other agencies with arrest powers in the county. That detail matters when looking for someone. A person arrested by CHP or Susanville Police may still be booked into the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility because the county jail is the local intake site.

The facility is part of a larger correctional map. The county also has the Lassen County Jail Annex, while High Desert State Prison and Federal Correctional Institution Herlong are separate state and federal facilities in Lassen County. The sheriff operates the Adult Detention Facility and annex. CDCR operates High Desert State Prison, and BOP operates FCI Herlong. A county jail lookup should not be used for sentenced state prisoners or federal prisoners.

Lassen County Adult Detention Capacity

Official sources give more than one capacity figure for the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, so the safest reading is by source and date. The public county jail page lists a capacity of 156 inmates, an average daily population of 120, and about 1,400 bookings per year. The 2023 jail medical-services request for proposals gives a jail rated capacity of 228 and reports 2,022 bookings in 2022. The 2019 PREA audit describes the jail as a 49,000-square-foot Type II facility with a BSCC-rated bed capacity of 231.

Those numbers should not be forced into one claim. The county web page is the public-facing facility summary. The medical RFP and PREA audit were written for procurement and compliance purposes, and they describe the building and service demands in more detail. For a records or custody question, the key point is that Lassen County Adult Detention Facility holds both pretrial and sentenced county inmates, while the annex adds separate rated capacity in the sheriff's jail system.

Lassen County Jail Inmate Lookup

No verified official Lassen County online jail roster, public booking table, current inmate list, or county-hosted inmate-search form was found in the official county and sheriff pages reviewed. That changes the order of a Lassen County Adult Detention Facility custody search. The jail phone is the primary county-level starting point, not a third-party roster. The Sheriff's Office records contact is the next county path when a person needs a document, a public-records routing question, or a booking-record contact.

1. Call the Adult Detention Facility at (530) 251-5245 for current custody confirmation, housing and visiting routing, and basic booking questions the jail can answer.
2. Use the Sheriff's Office records contact for records questions that cannot be handled by a phone confirmation.
3. Search the Lassen Superior Court public portal for filed criminal cases, hearings, and court charges after the booking reaches court.
4. Use CDCR CIRIS if the person has been sentenced to state prison or moved to CDCR custody.
5. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal prison custody, ICE ODLS for immigration detention, and California VINELink for custody-status notifications.

VINELink is useful for alerts, but it is not the official jail record. The court portal is useful for formal charges, but it may lag because the court states that portal data syncs on a schedule and may not show an event for several days. For a fresh arrest in Lassen County, the jail phone remains the most direct official channel.

Lassen County Adult Detention Contact

The Lassen County Adult Detention Facility is at the Sheriff Cady Lane law-enforcement complex in Susanville. The jail phone is the direct custody and facility-information line. The Sheriff's Office contact page lists the sheriff administration address nearby, the main sheriff phone, the jail phone, dispatch, and the sheriff email. Use the jail phone for current custody and visit questions. Use the sheriff records/contact page when the question is about a record or request route.

Dispatch is listed separately at (530) 257-6121. That number is for dispatch and non-emergency routing, not a substitute for 911 in an emergency and not the first choice for routine custody checks. For arrest-to-court issues, the Hall of Justice and court portal are separate from the jail, even though the PREA audit notes that the courthouse is less than two miles away.

Lassen County Jail Housing

The 2019 PREA audit gives unusually detailed building context for the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility. It says the jail was activated in 1991 on a 23-acre parcel across from Sheriff's Administration. The building is described as a north-south rectangle with six quadrants arranged in two columns of three. Four quadrants are inmate housing. The other two contain staff offices, program and service areas, maintenance, and other jail functions.

Housing includes the Security Housing Unit, Dorms 301 and 303, and Dorms 502 and 504. The SHU has a lower level with cells, showers, a 10-person dormitory, and exercise yards, plus an upper mezzanine used for general-population male inmates. The lower level is split into pods for classification and separation needs. Dorm 502 houses female general-population inmates, and Dorm 504 houses male outside workers. These details support the common jail term "classification," which means the safety and housing review used to assign a person to a pod, dorm, separation status, or other placement.

Booking

The jail intake event after arrest, including identity, paperwork, property, screening, and custody records.

Classification

The jail housing review that considers safety, separation, gender, health, behavior, and custody needs.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release or transfer even if a local case changes.

Lassen County Jail Visiting

A public family-visitation schedule, online scheduling vendor, video-visit vendor, and visitor fee table were not found on the official county jail pages reviewed. The official jail procedures manual does describe official visits, which are visits involving attorneys, physicians, behavioral health providers, clergy, alcohol or drug counselors, law-enforcement agents, and defense contractors. Those official visits are different from ordinary family or friend visiting.

For regular visitor planning, call the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility before travel. The jail can confirm current entry point, count restrictions, ID rules, whether the person is eligible for a visit, and whether a visit is at the main jail or routed through another facility. Do not rely on an old schedule or a third-party jail page because no current official public family schedule was located.

Lassen County Jail Mail and Money

The 2026 custody manual table of contents includes Accounts, Commissary Services, mail, telephones, religious programs, library services, education and rehabilitation, and release planning. The 2019 manual also includes inmate personal property control and inmate rules. Those sources confirm that the jail has custody policies for accounts and commissary, but they do not publish a public deposit vendor, kiosk location, phone-rate schedule, video-visit vendor, mail-scanning vendor, or fee table in the pages reviewed.

Before sending money, mailing items, or setting up a paid communication account, confirm current rules with the jail. Mail and money rules can change by contract, security practice, and housing status. The lack of a public vendor in the official pages means a vendor name should not be treated as verified unless the jail confirms it.

Lassen County Jail Booking

Booking at the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility starts when an arresting agency transports a person to the jail. The jail procedure topics include intake booking, personal property control, receiving and screening evaluations, classification and segregation, release procedures, detainers and extraditions, grievances, inmate rules, SWAP work release, and Sheriff's County Parole. The 2026 custody manual uses similar modern custody headings, including reception, orientation, searches, body scanners, medical screening, mental-health screening, detoxification and withdrawal, safety checks, and release planning.

A new county jail record may include identity, arresting agency, booking number, booking date, charges, disposition information, and other data that California Penal Code 13300 identifies within local summary criminal history. Public release of those details depends on the record type, requester, and law. Government Code 7923.610 supports public access to specified arrest information unless release would endanger safety or an investigation, but it does not create a public Lassen County roster where one was not found.

The 2023 medical RFP adds detail about jail operations. It says the jail had on-site medical staffing for part of each day under the then-current service model, used local hospital services for blood draws, lab work, and x-rays, and sent about 64 inmates to the local emergency room in 2022. Those figures show why booking and housing status can involve medical review before a person is placed or moved.

Lassen County Jail Source View

The county's public jail summary is shown on the official Adult Detention Facility page, which is the source for the public-facing Type II, capacity, average population, booking, and contact statements used here.

The screenshot matters because it confirms that the official jail page provides facility facts and phone contact, but not a public inmate roster or booking-photo gallery.

Lassen County Jail Reports

The sheriff policy page links the jail procedures manual, custody manual, PREA audit, training material, and posted policies. Those sources are more useful for jail process, housing, medical, grievances, visitation categories, and conditions than for public roster lookup. They should not be read as a substitute for a current custody confirmation from the jail.

Official recent materials also include death-in-custody releases on the sheriff press-release page. A 2026 release identifies a January 1, 2026 death at the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, in a housing unit, with custodial responsibility assigned to the Lassen County Sheriff's Office and a natural manner listed. Any such release should be read as a public reporting record, not as a current roster or a complete jail population list.