Siskiyou County, California — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Siskiyou County Jail

Operated bySiskiyou County Sheriff's Office — Custody Division
County publishes a jail nameYes — Siskiyou County Jail
Jail address315 South Oregon Street, Yreka, CA 96097
Beds as published104, expanded from an original capacity of 68
Year opened1988
Daily average population as publishedApproximately 101
StaffApproximately 40 civilian and sworn positions
Rated capacity104 beds

Source: Siskiyou County — Custody Division · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

5/10Partial

✓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 — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Siskiyou County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year built1988
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds104 as published by the county, expanded from an original 68. State rated capacity for the Siskiyou County Jail is also 104.

Since then

Expanded from 68 beds to 104; year of expansion not published

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue

Title as publishedSheriff-Coroner
Also serves asCounty Coroner — the same office that runs the jail determines cause of death
Headquarters305 Butte Street, Yreka, CA 96097

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Siskiyou County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

The court names its Presiding Judge and Assistant Presiding Judge on its home page but publishes no judicial directory page; the remaining judges and any commissioners are not listed. The court's 'Order of the Presiding Judge' page returned a 403.

Superior Court of California, County of Siskiyou — Presiding Judge

T.J. Linville II

Superior Court of California, County of Siskiyou — Assistant Presiding Judge

John Lawrence

Still needed

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

The county's own Custody Division page publishes both the bed count and an approximate daily average population, which is unusual for a small county.
The FY 2024-25 budget book carries a distinct budget unit named 'COUNTY JAIL', organization code 203010: https://www.siskiyoucounty.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/auditor-controller/page/1541/budget_book_2425-compressed.pdf
Roster: the In Custody Information page links the Citizen RIMS in-custody portal at siskiyou.crimegraphics.com.
Bail: no page explaining how to post bail was found on any county site.
Fees: the Telephone Calls page gives calling hours and a vendor phone number for NCIC Inmate Communications but publishes no rate; no commissary price list or video visit rate was found.
No PREA audit report and no BSCC inspection report for the Siskiyou County Jail was found on any county site.
The state's death-in-custody file records 4 deaths for Siskiyou County, all unconvicted, of which 1 was a suicide — more than the single death posted on the county's PC 10008 page, which covers only deaths since the statute took effect.
Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected from five supervisorial districts.

What California law requires

Siskiyou County posts a death-in-custody page.

Posts 7 of 7

The page is here. A dedicated county page titled 'In-Custody Death Information' cites Penal Code § 10008 and states the information 'shall be posted for the public to view on the agency's internet website within 10 days of the date of death, provided the Sheriff's Office is able to contact next of kin.' One entry is posted: Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, Siskiyou County, Fairchild Medical Center in Yreka, white female, 51, died 1/13/2025, non-sentenced and awaiting trial, manner and means recorded as other — drug overdose.

✓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

4 people have died in the Siskiyou County jail since 2020.

1 by suicide

0 illness or medical

4 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them4 of 4

Most recent death on the state's record2025-01-13

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 Siskiyou 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).

How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county elections office runs the polling place in Siskiyou County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the California Secretary of State and vote.gov.

Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered