Jail Numbers
- The County has two jail facilities (collectively, County jails) with a total capacity of 4650.
- Main Jail can hold up to 1450 inmates, who are all male with the exception of the infirmary and acute psychiatric unit 8A, which both house female and male inmates.
- Elmwood can hold up to 3200 inmates; Elmwood Men’s Facility can hold up to 2600 males; and the Correctional Center for Women at Elmwood can hold up to 600 females.
- The average daily census was 3507 as of December 2015.
- In 2015, the County jails had:
- Approximately 40,000 bookings.
- Approximately 30,000 admissions (bookings where the individual is housed, rather than simply cited and released).
- The average length of stay in the County jails has gone from about 138 days (2010) to about 205 days (2015).
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