City police and the Sheriff bring adults to the Main Jail on M Street. After booking, people may be housed next door at the North Annex Jail, 1265 M Street, or at the West Annex Jail, 2208 Merced Street. All three are part of one downtown complex.

Use Fresno County Inmate Search to see housing, charges and bail. The jail information line, 559-475-9491, can help when the record is new.

Within 48 hours, not including Sundays or holidays. In-custody felony and misdemeanor cases are heard at the courthouse at 1100 Van Ness Avenue (559-457-1801). See Fresno court steps.

Anyone held downtown is brought before the judge in the courtroom or on camera, as the court decides, and CourtCall scheduling rests with the parties themselves. If you are a party in some other family, civil or probate case tied to the arrest, you may enroll with CourtCall with the judge's okay.

The Superior Court's countywide schedule sets the first amount, which a family can pay in full at M Street or cover with a bond bought from a licensed agent. A judge can change it and must consider ability to pay. Some charges, such as serious or violent felonies, need a hearing before release. See the Fresno bail guide.

Yes, for people who can't afford counsel. The Fresno County Public Defender (559-600-3546) is appointed at arraignment.

Fresno visits are booked ahead, and each housing unit at the Main Jail and the two annexes has its own visit days. Every adult visitor needs photo ID. See Fresno visiting and remote visits.

Use the name, booking number and 1225 M Street, Fresno, CA 93721. Guides: mail limits, deposit options, commissary, inmate phones, e-messages, tablets.

Detained minors go to Probation's juvenile hall at 3333 East American Avenue, south of the city. Juvenile Services can be reached at 559-600-4700, and the juvenile court at 559-457-4810.

Fresno jail staff never call demanding a gift card, crypto, or app payment for release. If that happens, hang up and call the Watch Commander at 559-600-8440.

Officers from the FBI or the Secret Service carry out federal arrests. Hearings in these cases are held at the federal building in Fresno, 2500 Tulare Street, Fresno, CA 93721, part of the Fresno Division (Eastern District of California). The clerk there answers at 559-499-5600. Pretrial services interviews the inmate and reports to the court. The first appearance happens soon in front of a federal magistrate judge. Different from state court, federal judges won't check a bail amount. A brief hearing under the bail statute sorts out the release terms.

Search the county inmate list, where the hold may show. Otherwise phone the Marshals office for the federal Eastern District of California at 559-442-2858 (2500 Tulare Street, Suite 3501, Fresno, CA 93721). Until sentencing, the Marshals usually hold the person in a county jail. Once there is sentencing to prison, they go into BOP custody once a bed is free. Find them on the BOP locator by full name.

• During booking, prints taken at the jail reach federal databases. Then ICE might file a detainer.
• Posting bond will not cancel it.
• Under the I-247A, ICE asks the Fresno jail to keep the person on ICE's behalf up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). At the Fresno County Jail, SB 54 (the California Values Act) keeps release on the local schedule, while sharing release dates or making ICE transfers depends on a judicial warrant or specific serious convictions.
• ICE officers often come for them at the Fresno jail within that window. If ICE stays away, that means release.
• Search for the inmate at the locator once ICE takes custody, typing in your loved one's A-number and the country of birth. Without your loved one's A-number? Enter DOB, country of birth, and the exact name instead.
• Write or call ICE's San Francisco field office: 630 Sansome Street, Room 590, San Francisco, CA 94111; phone 415-365-8800.
• Only ICE picks where they go next.

Prison sentences are served under California's corrections department. They wait in the Fresno jail for a state transfer. Then, they're taken to an intake unit for check-in. CDCR staff classify everyone by health care needs, security risk and gang affiliation. Then, the CDCR sends them to a unit that matches their needs.

Check the CDCR inmate locator for their unit. The California prison guide lists visits and mail.

No. Fresno keeps mugshots off the Fresno inmate lookup.

Penal Code 13665 sets the state rule. It deals with social media. Most nonviolent arrests fall under it. Police can't post those mugshots online there. Photos posted there expire after 14 days. A judge can also allow a post. The sheriff's own website isn't covered. Even so, many sheriffs leave photos off.

Immigration pictures become available just through an ICE FOIA request, though release isn't promised. Unposted mugshots are handled by sheriff's staff; reporters may phone 559-600-3111. Federal mugshots are not made public. In federal cases, any photo is held by the Marshals, who share one only for a wanted person, when residents need protection right away, or to help make an arrest or to warn people.

• Fresno Police non-emergency: 559-621-7000
• Clovis Police: 559-324-2800
• Fresno County Sheriff's Office dispatch: 559-600-3111

Smaller cities like Sanger, Selma, Reedley and Kerman have their own departments; the Sheriff covers rural areas.

The court's online case information is a quick first look, since it shows whether a case from Clovis, Selma or Reedley is open. For the warrant itself, call the Sheriff's warrant line, 559-600-8402; the Sheriff's FAQ on warrants explains what to have ready, and staff check names against local and statewide files. Families in Clovis and Sanger can ask the clerk which department holds a relative's case. If you hold a warrant yourself, a lawyer can set up your surrender, and the Van Ness Avenue clerk can explain returning to court.