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Glenn County Jail Overview

Glenn County Jail is the county's Type II local adult detention facility in Willows. The operator is the Glenn County Sheriff's Office, which also administers the county jail, dispatch, and coroner functions. The jail handbook states that the facility holds people pending arraignment, after arraignment, during trial, and upon sentencing for commitment. That means the jail population is mainly a county custody population, not a state-prison population.

The facility is listed in state capacity materials as Glenn Co Adult Detention Fac. The BSCC rated-capacity workbook updated April 24, 2026 lists the jail as a Type II facility with 144 rated beds. The jail handbook describes minimum, medium, and maximum classification decisions based on current charges, behavior, criminal history, prior disciplinary actions, gang affiliation, and other factors considered before housing placement.

Glenn County Jail Population

Glenn County Jail has a rated capacity of 144 beds in the BSCC workbook. Vera's 2021 Glenn County fact sheet reported 73 people in the county jail on an average day, 1,326 jail admissions during the year, 83% of the jail population as pretrial, and 14% of the jail population with mental-health needs. A current daily jail population dashboard was not located in the county materials reviewed.

The custody manual treats population control as an operations issue. It calls for managing the incarcerated-person population to avoid exceeding approved bed capacity when reasonably possible. When the population nears capacity, the sheriff or designee should form a crowding committee with jail, court, prosecution, defense, government, and public participants. If the jail maintains an 80% occupancy rate for one year, the manual calls for a jail needs assessment.

Look Up Glenn County Jail Inmates

No official live Glenn County Jail roster, public booking search, or inmate profile portal was located on the county jail page, sheriff page, or other official county sources reviewed. Current Glenn County Jail inmate lookup therefore starts with the jail phone and moves to written records or court records when needed. If the person has already been sentenced to state prison, use CDCR CIRIS instead of the county jail. Federal and immigration custody use separate federal systems.

1. Call Glenn County Jail at 530-934-6428 for current custody, visiting eligibility, and housing-status questions that can be released.
2. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency ready.
3. Use the Sheriff's Request for Release of Records form and select Arrest/Booking Record if a booking record is needed.
4. Search the Glenn Superior Court case index after charges are filed to find case numbers, hearings, formal charges, and dispositions.
5. Use CDCR, BOP, ICE ODLS, or VINELink if local jail staff say the person has transferred or is outside county custody.

Glenn County Jail Contact

The jail, sheriff records office, and courthouse are close together in Willows, but they are not the same office. Use the jail address for custody and visiting questions. Use the sheriff administration and records address for records-release paperwork. Use the court address for filed criminal cases and copy requests.

Glenn County Jail Visiting

The official jail page publishes visiting hours by custody or housing category. Administrative separation does not have a public time block, so the jail must be called for the designated visiting time. The handbook states that Glenn County Jail uses both in-person and video visitation, and that video visits may be scheduled through GTL at glenncountyca.gtlvisitme.com or by calling the jail and speaking with the office technician.

Visitors must have valid picture identification. The handbook identifies state driver's license, state ID, military ID, passport or border crossing card, and U.S. immigration identification as acceptable examples. Visitors under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian and provide legal documentation for verification. Only two visitors are allowed in the visiting room at one time, and visitors may be searched. A person recently incarcerated at Glenn County Jail must wait 60 days after release before visiting.

Glenn County Jail Money

The jail page lists several ways to add funds to an inmate trust account. Money may be added online, by phone, by U.S. Postal money order or cashier's check through mail or in person, or at a lobby kiosk. The jail page names Smart Deposit through mycarepack.com and smartdeposit.com. It also says care packs are not available at this facility, a local detail that matters because package vendors are common in other jail systems.

Glenn County Jail Intake

Glenn County's public materials do not publish a consumer-facing booking timeline, but the handbook and custody manual identify the main framework. A person arrested locally may be transported to the jail, received by custody staff, searched, screened, booked, classified, and assigned housing. The custody manual includes policies for reception, inmate records, searches, medical screening, mental-health screening and evaluation, classification, safety checks, and release.

Classification is the jail's housing and security decision. The handbook says inmates are classified as minimum, medium, or maximum security based on current charges, behavior, past criminal history, prior disciplinary action in any facility, gang affiliation, and other significant factors. A sentenced inmate with more than 60 days may request classification review no less than 30 days after the last review. Social calls and visits may be monitored and recorded, while attorney and legal communications are not monitored or recorded.

Glenn County Jail Records

The Sheriff's Request for Release of Records form is the local path for arrest and booking paperwork. The form covers the Sheriff's Office, Coroner, Civil Process, Office of Emergency Services, and Animal Control. For a jail booking record, choose Arrest/Booking Record and include the case or incident number if known, date and time of incident, location, involved names, and the requester's involvement. The form lists a $0.05 per-page copy fee and payment options handled by the office.

About Glenn County Jail

The custody manual describes a broad operating framework for the jail, including inmate counts, handbook and orientation, access to courts and counsel, grievances, voting, religious programs, food service, medical and mental-health care, release planning, PREA policy, and population management. The manual identifies the jail control center as The Tower, staffed 24 hours each day to coordinate facility security, safety, communications, alarms, and assistance.

Glenn County Jail sits in central Willows near the courthouse and sheriff administration office. That local geography is useful for families because the custody question, the public-records question, and the court-case question often go to different counters. Jail custody starts at Lassen Street. Sheriff records are handled through Oak Street. Filed criminal cases and copy requests go through Glenn Superior Court on Sycamore Street.