The Detention Center
West Valley Detention Center; High Desert Detention Center; Central Detention Center; Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center
- Operated bySan Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Detention and Corrections Bureau
- County publishes jail namesYes — all four named with addresses on the Corrections / Jails page
- West Valley Detention Center9500 Etiwanda Ave., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
- High Desert Detention Center9438 Commerce Way, Adelanto, CA 92301
- Central Detention Center630 E. Rialto Ave., San Bernardino, CA 92415
- Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center18000 W. End of Institution Rd., Devore, CA 92407
- System size as published7,400 jail beds, average daily population 5,000, about 85,000 bookings a year
- Rated capacity (BSCC file)6,940 — West Valley 3,072, High Desert 2,098, Glen Helen 998, Central 772
- Rated capacity6,940 beds across 4 facilities
Source: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department — Corrections / Jails · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✓Deaths in custody
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtCentral Detention Center opened 1971; Glen Helen male facility opened 1960 as a work camp and female facility 1988; West Valley Detention Center opened 1991; High Desert Detention Center opened January 2006
- Original costNot found on any county page
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsWest Valley Detention Center 3,347; High Desert Detention Center 'over 2100'; Glen Helen maximum capacity 1,446 (male complex) with a 326-bed female facility; system total published as 7,400 beds with an average daily population of 5,000
Since then
- 1991 — West Valley Detention Center built in response to 1980s overcrowding at Central
- 1994 — Central Detention Center reopened after a budget closure when the Sheriff negotiated a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to house federal inmates
- 2003 — Maximum Security Unit added to the Glen Helen female facility
- January 2006 — High Desert Detention Center opened in Adelanto, the first Type II facility in the High Desert
- May 2013 — 8-acre inmate fire camp opened at Glen Helen, the first county-operated fire camp in California
The Sheriff
Sheriff Shannon D. Dicus
- Title as publishedSheriff-Coroner
- Also serves asCounty Coroner — the Coroner/Public Administrator Division sits inside the Sheriff's Department
- Took officeElected 36th Sheriff-Coroner on June 7, 2022 (appointed to the office in 2021 before that election)
- Scope as published2,007 sworn and 2,073 professional employees, 1,552 volunteers, annual budget over $800 million
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department — Sheriff's Executive Staff · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
The court reports 104 judicial officers, so only the Presiding and Assistant Presiding Judges are listed here. The full department-by-department roster is published as the court's Schedule of Assignments at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/schedassign.pdf; it does not designate a single bail-setting bench.
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino — Assistant Presiding Judge (2026-2027)
- Kyle S. Brodie
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- San Bernardino is the most complete AB 2761 posting in this group by volume — 48 incidents indexed — but the index page alone shows only date and facility; a reader has to open a PDF per death for the required detail, and some case files are still marked pending.
- The Sheriff's Corrections page publishes both a bed count and an average daily population, which most counties in this group do not.
- Contracts: the Central Detention Center page states the facility reopened in 1994 under a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to house federal inmates, and Glen Helen holds county-sentenced people. No contract document and no per-diem rate is published, so the check is 'no'.
- PREA: the Corrections page carries a zero-tolerance statement and links the national PREA Resource Center, but publishes no audit result for any of the four jails.
- The 2025 San Bernardino County Civil Grand Jury final report, published on a county domain, includes a 'Jails and Prisons' mandated inquiry: jurors toured West Valley, High Desert and Central Detention Centers using the BSCC jail inspection and facility tour form, alongside two state prisons and a juvenile facility. The section records the tours but reports no findings or recommendations.
- Fees: no phone rate, video-visit rate or commissary price list is published; commissary ordering is routed to iCare and inmate services to sbcsdinmateservices.org.
- The state's death-in-custody file records 122 San Bernardino jail deaths (21 suicide, 59 natural, 109 unconvicted, 10 pending) — the highest count of any county in this group.
- Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district.
What California law requires
San Bernardino County posts a death-in-custody page.
Posts 7 of 7The page is here. A page headed 'AB 2761' states it 'contains records regarding case files mandated by California Assembly Bill 2761 in accordance with California Penal Code 10008.' The index table itself gives only incident date, facility, facility address and last-updated date for 48 incidents from 01/13/2023 to 04/20/2026; the seven required items live in the linked 'In Custody Death Information Release' PDFs. Those PDFs carry all of them — the 09/02/2025 release lists Gender Male, Ethnicity Black, Age 64, Agency San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Facility West Valley Detention Center with street address, Custody Status Awaiting Trial, County of Death San Bernardino County, Location of Death Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Date of Death 09/02/2025, Manner Undetermined, Means Undetermined. Several entries still show 'Case Files: Pending' and at least one release (01/20/2026) is a scanned image with no extractable text.
- ✓The agency with custodial responsibility
- ✓The county where the death occurred
- ✓The facility — and where inside it
- ✓Race, gender and age
- ✓The date of death
- ✓Custodial status — awaiting arraignment, awaiting trial, or incarcerated
- ✓Manner and means of death
California Penal Code § 10008, enacted by AB 2761 and in force since January 2023, requires the agency with custodial responsibility to post these seven items on its own website within ten days of a death in custody, and to update them within thirty days if the facts change. California is the only state in the country with this duty. Checked 2026-08-23. This records what is published, nothing more.
The record
122 people have died in the San Bernardino County jail since 2016.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in San Bernardino County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
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Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered