Every arrest in the county, including the many traffic stops on Interstate 5, leads to the Colusa County Jail, 929 Bridge Street, Colusa, CA 95932, about 20 minutes east of Williams; the booking desk number is 530-458-0205. The Sheriff's office shares the same Bridge Street address.

Use Colusa on VINELink; the county's list may be updated only once a day. A quick call to 530-458-0205 is often faster.

A person held in jail must be arraigned within 48 hours, Sundays and holidays aside. The criminal clerk's office is at 532 Oak Street in Colusa (530-458-5149, option 4), and court sits at 547 Market Street. Read Colusa court steps.

From the jail, people reach their hearings in the courtroom or on a video link the court chooses, while CourtCall is something only a party to the case may book. Someone named in a linked civil, family or probate case can create a CourtCall account if the judge agrees.

The jail uses the Superior Court's bail schedule until a judge sees the person. Cash or a bond from a licensed agent is accepted at the jail. The judge then decides release, after looking at public safety, the chance he'd skip court and his finances. See our Colusa bail guide.

Colusa runs its defense by contract. At arraignment the judge assigns a contract defense lawyer at arraignment for anyone who can't afford one. The clerk can say who was appointed.

Visits are set by appointment, and adults need photo ID. Call 530-458-0205 for the current days. See visiting Colusa and remote visits.

Address letters to the person, with booking number, at 929 Bridge Street, Colusa, CA 95932. Our guides cover what letters may hold, putting money on the books, buying from the store, phone accounts, e-mail and tablets.

Jail staff check prescriptions with the pharmacy before giving them. Call the jail at 929 Bridge Street, Colusa, CA 95932 (530-458-0205) with the medicine name and dose as soon as you know about the arrest.

Colusa sends detained youths to the Tri-County Youth Development Center at 938 14th Street in Marysville, which serves several Sacramento Valley counties. Colusa Probation can be reached at 530-458-5871.

Never by phone demand. Colusa bail is posted in person at the jail. Callers wanting wire transfers or gift cards are frauds; reach the jail at 530-458-0205 on your own.

These cases often involve the IRS or the Marshals Service, sometimes with deputies. The charge is heard by the Eastern District's Sacramento Division, at the federal courthouse: 501 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. For case questions, call the clerk at 916-930-4000. Plan on questions with a pretrial officer before court. Usually by the next court day, the person goes before a federal magistrate for an initial appearance. U.S. court uses no bail schedule. A judge weighs release and its conditions at a hearing on custody under federal bail law.

Start on the sheriff's roster first. During the case, U.S. Marshals often house federal prisoners in a private jail. The Marshals Service office for this area is at 501 I Street, Suite 5600, Sacramento, CA 95814. Call 916-930-2030 to find a federal prisoner. Those given federal prison time move out of the county jail to the BOP later. Find them through the Bureau of Prisons search.

• Jail prints get checked with federal records that ICE reviews. ICE may then lodge a detainer.
• This request asks the sheriff to keep the person in custody up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Colusa's jail follows SB 54 and lets people leave once the county case allows; telling ICE about a release, or transferring the person, is reserved for a judge-signed warrant or specific serious or violent felonies.
• A paid bail won't end an ICE hold.
• ICE agents usually collect them at the jail before the time is up. If ICE never comes, that means release.
• Find a detained relative at the locator after the move, using the person's A-number with country of birth. Can't find the person's A-number? You can also search with their full name together with DOB and country of birth.
• This county reports to ICE's San Francisco ERO office, at 630 Sansome Street, Room 590, San Francisco, CA 94111; call 415-365-8800.
• Only ICE chooses where they go next.

A state prison sentence is overseen by California's corrections department (CDCR). For now, the inmate waits in the Colusa jail until the CDCR sends for them, which may take weeks. Then, they go to a reception center for check-in. Classification staff review new arrivals after checking known gang ties, health care needs and their risk level. Their end point is a prison that suits those results.

Relatives can look up your loved one by CDCR number with the CDCR locator. The state prison page covers each unit.

There are no Colusa mugshots online because Colusa has no public roster. Use Colusa on VINELink to check custody; it has no photos.

The state rule is Penal Code 13665. Social media is what it covers. It applies to most nonviolent arrests. Agencies may not post those photos there. Photos posted there expire after 14 days. Fugitives and threats are the exceptions. Jail websites are outside this law. Most sheriffs in California skip photos anyway.

For a request about a booking picture that isn't public, reporters should reach the sheriff's office, 530-458-0200. Federal mugshots are not made public. Marshals rules keep sharing to three situations: to find an escaped inmate or fugitive, when publishing it speeds the search or an alert to the community, or for pressing public safety. An immigration mugshot is released after a records request to ICE and ICE's approval.

• Colusa Police: 530-458-7777
• Williams Police: 530-473-2661
• Colusa County Sheriff's Office: 530-458-0200

Arbuckle, Maxwell, Grimes and Princeton have no police departments and rely on the Sheriff. The Highway Patrol handles Interstate 5.

Sheriff's deputies serve most warrants in this rice-country county and book the people they arrest on Bridge Street. Those same deputies, at 530-458-0200, can tell a caller from Williams or Arbuckle about a statewide hit. Handling a warrant early is easier on everyone: an attorney can book a surrender at the jail. The Market Street court posts fines and reminders on its online services page, and its clerk answers questions about case status and rescheduling. Families from Maxwell and Princeton can call the clerk about a court date for a relative.