• Central Detention Center, 630 East Rialto Avenue, San Bernardino (909-386-0969), for many valley arrests
• West Valley Detention Center, 9500 Etiwanda Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga (909-708-8371), the county's largest jail
• High Desert Detention Center, 9438 Commerce Way, Adelanto (760-530-9300), for Victor Valley and desert arrests
• Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center in Devore (909-473-3689), mainly for sentenced people

Some cities, like San Bernardino, Barstow and Big Bear, also hold people briefly at station jails before transfer.

San Bernardino County Inmate Search shows the jail, booking number, bail and court date. The Sheriff's bail line is 909-350-2476.

Arraignment follows within two court days at the court nearest the arrest: 247 West Third Street in San Bernardino (909-384-1888), 8303 Haven Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga (909-350-9764), or 14455 Civic Drive in Victorville (760-245-6215). Read San Bernardino court steps.

Any of the jails will take bail, in cash or by a licensed agent's bond. Judges review release at arraignment, and state law requires a look at whether the person can pay. Since April 2026, the California Supreme Court has said money bail usually must be set at an amount the person can reach. See the San Bernardino bail guide.

The county Public Defender's main office is at 323 West Court Street, San Bernardino (909-382-3950), with branches at the other courts.

Each jail schedules visits on its own calendar. Confirm housing on the roster, book ahead and bring ID. See San Bernardino visiting and video visiting.

Envelopes carry the booking number and the address of the jail now housing the person. Our San Bernardino pages: mail, deposits, commissary, phones, messaging, tablets.

Probation runs juvenile detention centers in the Central Valley area (909-383-1769), the High Desert (760-961-6701) and the West Valley (909-356-1974). Its main office is at 175 West Fifth Street (909-387-5874).

Scammers sometimes pose as Sheriff's staff and ask for a gift card or wire to clear a warrant or post bail. The Sheriff never does this. Call the bail line, 909-350-2476, to find out what's real.

Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the IRS and the DEA carry out federal arrests, sometimes alongside deputies. Hearings for these cases are held at the courthouse in Riverside, 3470 Twelfth Street, Riverside, CA 92501, for the Central District of California's Eastern Division. The clerk's line: 951-328-4450. An officer from pretrial services also interviews them and reports to the judge. Plan on an initial appearance before a magistrate judge usually by the next court day. Money is not the main question in a federal case. A judge considers danger and flight risk at a release hearing per the 1984 Bail Reform Act.

Until sentencing, U.S. Marshals may hold them in a county jail by contract. Search the local roster, where the hold may show. Then try the Marshals office for the Central District of California in Riverside at 951-276-6120 (3470 12th Street, Room G-122, Riverside, CA 92501). With a prison term, the BOP picks the prison. Look them up on the BOP's detainee locator.

• Jail fingerprints get checked through national records that ICE reviews. Then ICE might place a detainer.
• Making the bond will not remove it.
• Through a detainer, ICE wants jail staff to delay release by no more than two days. That's a straight 48 hours, measured from release time. Holidays and weekends still count.
• ICE agents can take custody while the hold lasts. If the window passes, the jail must release the person.
• After pickup, the person can be found on the detainee locator; search by the person's A-number and home country. Missing the person's A-number? Enter date of birth, native country and the person's legal name instead.
• ICE alone picks the next facility.
• Cases here go to ICE's Los Angeles enforcement office: 300 North Los Angeles Street, Room 7631, Los Angeles, CA 90012, tel. 213-830-7911.

A prison term is spent in the custody of California's corrections department (CDCR). They often wait in the San Bernardino County jail until the state has a bed. CDCR intake is next; paperwork, photos and tests. Workers there review new arrivals after checking gang affiliation, physical and mental health and custody score. Their final move is the unit that suits them.

To follow the move, look up the state inmate search. For each unit, read California state prisons.

Search the San Bernardino booking search. Don't count on San Bernardino mugshots being there.

California's rule is Penal Code 13665. It covers social media posts. It applies to most nonviolent arrests. Agencies may not post those photos there. Posts must come down within 14 days. A judge can also allow a post. The sheriff's own website isn't covered. Most sheriffs in California skip photos anyway.

When a booking photo isn't on the website, media questions go through sheriff's staff at 909-387-8313. The public and reporters cannot get federal booking photos usually. The office that photographs prisoners, the Marshals Service, publishes one only for a wanted person, for urgent public safety, or when release could help track them down or warn the community. ICE intake photos are not shared at the office; the path is a public records request to ICE, which the agency reviews.

• San Bernardino Police non-emergency: 909-383-5311
• Fontana Police non-emergency: 909-350-7700
• Ontario Police non-emergency: 909-986-6711
• San Bernardino County Sheriff's dispatch, valley: 909-387-8313
• San Bernardino County Sheriff's dispatch, desert: 760-956-5001

Victorville, Rancho Cucamonga, Hesperia and several other cities contract with the Sheriff for police service.