Most people are held at the Public Safety Center, with East and West sides. The REACT center on the same campus runs reentry and job programs. The profile for Units 1 and 2 covers the older downtown units.

Stanislaus County Inmate Search lists who Stanislaus is holding and where. Hackett Road staff at 209-525-5630 can confirm.

A jailed defendant is taken before a Modesto judge inside two court days at 800 11th Street (209-530-3100). Read Stanislaus court steps.

The county's 2026 schedule sets a first amount. Families pay at Hackett Road or through a licensed bondsman. A Modesto judge may change bail and must look at whether the person can pay it. See the Stanislaus bail guide.

Lawyers for people who can't pay work from 1021 I Street, Suite 201, Modesto (209-525-4200).

Book a time for the right side of the Public Safety Center and bring a government photo ID card. See Stanislaus visits and video visits.

Address letters with the booking number to the Hackett Road facility. Topics: mail guide, money guide, commissary guide, phone guide, message guide, tablet guide.

The Stanislaus County Juvenile Hall houses detained minors at 2215 Blue Gum Avenue, Modesto, beside the juvenile courtrooms.

Stanislaus deputies won't phone asking you to wire cash. Call Hackett Road at 209-525-5630 to be sure.

These cases start with groups such as Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals, or the FBI, sometimes with city police. This county sits in the Eastern District's Sacramento Division; cases are held at the courthouse in Sacramento, 501 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. The clerk's line: 916-930-4000. Soon after booking, they go before a federal magistrate. No one uses a fixed bail price for federal charges. A hearing on custody settles whether they can leave, under federal bail law. Plan on an interview with pretrial staff before court.

Start on the sheriff's roster first. The Marshals Service branch covering the Eastern District of California is at 501 I Street, Suite 5600, Sacramento, CA 95814. Call 916-930-2030 to learn the location of the person. While the case is open, the Marshals Service in most cases keeps them in a private jail by contract. If the court orders prison time, the BOP picks the prison. Search with the BOP's inmate locator once they leave the jail.

• Immigration officers hear about an arrest from booking prints staff share. ICE can then send a detainer.
• Making bail won't erase this hold.
• Through the I-247A, ICE asks jail staff to keep the person on ICE's behalf up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Modesto jail staff follow California's SB 54: release follows the county case, and staff share release timing or transfer someone to ICE only when a judge has issued a warrant or a listed felony appears in the record.
• ICE officers can come for them at the jail inside that 48-hour window. With no ICE officer arriving, that means they're released.
• Where they're sent is ICE's call.
• ICE's web search, the detainee locator, tells where they are held, using the A-number and birth country. People without the alien number (A-number) can use the person's full name, along with birth date and native country.
• For help, call ICE's San Francisco field office, which covers Northern California: 415-365-8800; the office is at 630 Sansome Street, Room 590, San Francisco, CA 94111.

California's prison system, the CDCR, takes anyone sentenced to prison time. For now, the person waits in the Modesto jail until the CDCR has room. Next, they're taken to a reception center for check-in. There, the CDCR looks at physical and mental health, any gang affiliation and security level. The next move is the unit that matches their needs.

Relatives can find a CDCR inmate by name with the CDCR locator. Our state prison guide covers each unit.

Try the Stanislaus jail search first; the Stanislaus record may not include mugshots.

California's rule is Section 13665. It deals with social media. Most nonviolent arrests fall under it. Police can't post those mugshots online there. Posts must come down within 14 days. Exceptions exist for fugitives and public threats. The rule skips the sheriff's own site. Even so, many sheriffs leave photos off.

Unposted mugshots are handled by sheriff's staff; media may phone 209-525-5630. Immigration pictures become available only through an ICE records request, if ICE agrees. Federal mugshots are not shared with reporters or the community. Marshals policy keeps sharing to three situations: for an escaped prisoner, when posting it speeds the search or a warning to the community or if it's required at once to protect the community.

• Modesto Police non-emergency: 209-552-2470
• Turlock Police non-emergency: 209-668-1200

Ceres, Oakdale and Patterson have their own police or Sheriff contract units.

Probably. Ceres, Turlock and Riverbank warrant arrests go to the Public Safety Center, the Sheriff's jail complex off Hackett Road, where staff can confirm who's in custody. Phone the Sheriff's Office at 209-525-5630 with warrant questions, statewide ones too. The Superior Court posts an online case search that pulls up active criminal matters. For a warrant in your own name, local counsel can schedule surrender, and the 11th Street clerk can help with a new hearing, explain any paperwork, and tell you what to bring.