• Riverside city and western county: the downtown Riverside detention center, 4000 Orange Street (951-955-4500)
• Banning, Beaumont and the Pass area: the Banning correctional facility, 1627 South Hargrave Street (951-922-7300)
• Coachella Valley: the Indio Jail, 82675 Highway 111 (760-863-8252)
• Temecula, Murrieta and the southwest: the southwest detention center on Auld Road in Murrieta (951-696-3050)
• The Palo Verde Valley: the Blythe Jail, 260 North Spring Street (760-921-5780)

People are often moved between jails for court or space.

Search Riverside County Inmate Search by name and birth date. Results show the facility, bail and court date. If the person was just arrested by a city department, give it a few hours.

Two court days at most pass before a hearing at the court that serves the area: the Hall of Justice at 4100 Main Street in Riverside, the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta, the Banning Justice Center, the Indio justice center on Oasis Street, or the Blythe courthouse. The court's main line is 951-777-3147, and the desert courts answer 760-393-2617. Read Riverside court steps.

The countywide schedule sets amounts, which can be paid at any Sheriff's jail or through a licensed bail agent. At arraignment a judge may change the amount or release on own recognizance. Judges must consider ability to pay, and money bail has to stay within reach unless the person may be held without bail. See the Riverside bail guide.

The Riverside County Public Defender is appointed at arraignment and keeps offices near the major courthouses, including 4075 Main Street, Suite 100, Riverside, CA 92501 (951-955-6000), 82-995 Highway 111, Suite 200, Indio, CA 92201 (760-863-8231), and 30755 Auld Road, Murrieta, CA 92563 (951-304-5600).

Find the jail on the roster, then schedule a visit. Bring photo ID and arrive early. See Riverside visiting and video visits.

Envelopes must name the specific Riverside facility and carry the booking number. Riverside pages: mail, deposits, commissary, phones, messages, tablets.

Probation runs the Southwest Juvenile Hall, 30755-C Auld Road, Murrieta (951-600-6750), and the Indio Juvenile Hall, 47665 Oasis Street (760-863-7600). A youth treatment center in Riverside handles longer commitments.

Riverside deputies never phone for bail by gift card, crypto or app. Check any such claim by calling the jail itself; the Robert Presley Detention Center, 4000 Orange Street, Riverside, CA 92501, answers 951-955-4500.

Federal cases start with teams from the FBI, the Marshals Service or the IRS, often helped by city police. Cases out of this area belong to the Eastern Division (Central District of California), sitting in Riverside: 3470 Twelfth Street, Riverside, CA 92501. The clerk's office there answers at 951-328-4450. An officer from pretrial services also interviews your loved one and reports to the judge. Soon after booking, the accused meets a U.S. magistrate judge. No one uses a bail chart in U.S. district court. A detention hearing settles detention or release, using the 1984 Bail Reform Act.

Before trial, the Marshals usually keep them in local jails by contract. Start on the county roster. The district's Marshals office in Riverside can tell you where they're held: 951-276-6120, 3470 12th Street, Room G-122, Riverside, CA 92501. Once there is a federal sentence, the inmate is sent to a BOP prison once a bed is free. Track them on the BOP locator.

• Jail prints get compared against federal databases ICE can check. ICE may then issue a detainer with jail staff.
• Even after bond is posted, the detainer remains on file.
• Jailers are asked to keep the person at the Riverside jail up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Riverside's jails apply SB 54, the Values Act, so the county timeline controls release, and sheriff's staff work with ICE on a notice or transfer just for a court-issued warrant or a listed serious felony. Federal officers get those hours to make the trip.
• ICE officers usually come for them at the Riverside County jail while held. Without an ICE pickup, this means the person goes free.
• Relatives can track the inmate on the web through the locator site, using an A-number and birth country. Families lacking the alien number (A-number) can use their full name, along with country of birth and date of birth.
• The agency picks the detention center.
• If the jail can't answer, reach ICE's Los Angeles office at 213-830-7911; it sits at 300 North Los Angeles Street, Room 7631, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

A prison term is spent under the state corrections department (CDCR). First, the person stays in the Riverside County jail until the state has room. CDCR intake comes first: papers, photos and a health search for. Prison staff rate everyone for health care needs, known gang ties, and how much security they need. Their final stop is a facility that suits them.

For their unit, open the CDCR online locator. For prison details, see our California prison guide.

No. Riverside booking records in the Riverside in-custody list come without mugshots.

California's rule is PC 13665. Social media is what it covers. It applies to most nonviolent arrests. Police can't post those mugshots online there. Posts must come down within 14 days. Fugitives and threats are the exceptions. The sheriff's own website isn't covered. Still, most California rosters show no photos.

News outlets seeking a mugshot not shown online can call sheriff's staff at 951-776-1099. ICE pictures become available only via ICE's FOIA form, if ICE agrees. Federal agencies don't release booking photos to the community or media. Only in narrow cases, the federal Marshals Service shares one: to find an escaped prisoner, to help a capture or warn residents or when there's an urgent risk to the community.

• Riverside Police non-emergency: 951-354-2007
• Corona Police non-emergency: 951-736-2330
• Palm Springs Police non-emergency: 760-327-1441
• Riverside County Sheriff's Office non-emergency: 951-776-1099

Many cities, including Temecula, Moreno Valley and Palm Desert, contract with the Sheriff.

Usually the nearest one, such as the Robert Presley Detention Center downtown or the Indio jail in the Coachella Valley. The Sheriff's Office at 951-955-2400 looks names up by phone, statewide checks included. Use the court's online public access to see open cases. If you carry a warrant, a lawyer in the city or in Palm Springs can schedule surrender, so you choose the day and arrive prepared. The 4100 Main Street clerk can explain the steps to a new date.