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

The Detention Center

Stanton Correctional Facility; Claybank Detention Facility; Justice Center Detention Facility

Operated bySolano County Sheriff-Coroner's Office — Custody Division
County publishes jail namesYes — three facilities each have their own county page
Stanton Correctional Facility address2450 Claybank Road, Fairfield, CA 94533
Claybank Detention Facility address2500 Claybank Road, Fairfield, CA 94533
Bed capacity on county facility pagesNot published
Year built on county facility pagesNot published
Rated capacity1,412 beds across 3 facilities

Source: Solano County — Stanton Correctional Facility · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✓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 Solano 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 builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsThe county's own facility pages publish no bed counts. State rated capacity totals 1,412 — Solano County Justice Center 689, Stanton Correctional Facility 365, Claybank Facility 358.

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Brad DeWall

Title as publishedSheriff-Coroner
Also serves asCounty Coroner — the Coroner's Office is a division of the Sheriff-Coroner's Office
UndersheriffBill Hornbrook
Headquarters530 Union Avenue, Suite 100, Fairfield, CA 94533

Still needed

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

Source: Solano County — Sheriff-Coroner · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Both were elected to the 2026-2027 term, effective January 1, 2026. Commissioners who handle arraignment and bail calendars are not named in the announcement.

Superior Court of California, County of Solano — Presiding Judge

William J. Pendergast, III

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

Shauna L. Chastain

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 Public Information page publishes both an In Custody Web Search and Jail Booking Logs.
PREA: the Custody Division has a Prison Rape Elimination Act page describing the law and reporting procedures, but it publishes no audit report or audit result, so the check is marked no.
The Sheriff's transparency portal's 'Mandated Reports and Publications' section lists only the AB 481 military equipment policy and annual report — no jail inspection, PREA audit, in-custody death or population report.
No BSCC inspection report for any Solano County jail was found on a county site.
The Solano County Civil Grand Jury's '2022-2023 Assessment of Sheriff's Custody Division Operations', dated July 3, 2023, is published on the Superior Court's site at https://solano.courts.ca.gov/system/files/final-230703-sheriff-report.pdf rather than on a county site, and it is an operational assessment rather than a facility inspection, so it is not counted under the inspections check.
Bail: no county page explaining how to post bail was found; the Superior Court publishes bail information separately.
Fees: no phone rate, video visit rate or commissary price list was found on any county page; the commissary page links the iCare vendor only.
Contracts: no county-published agreement to hold another agency's prisoners, with or without rates, was located.
The state's death-in-custody file records 25 deaths for Solano County, 22 of them unconvicted and 9 suicides.
Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district.

What California law requires

Solano County posts a death-in-custody page.

Posts 0 of 7

The page is here. A standing page titled 'Mortality in Custody' exists under the Sheriff-Coroner's Custody Division. Its only content is a link to a PDF named 'Mortality in Custody 070326.pdf' at https://content.solanocounty.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/Mortality_in_Custody_070326.pdf. That host's robots.txt disallows retrieval and the county's archival-document redirect returned 403, so the PDF's contents could not be read. The empty elements list reflects that the seven statutory items could not be verified, not a finding that none are present. The page itself carries no text citing AB 2761 or Penal Code 10008.

—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

25 people have died in the Solano County jail since 2016.

9 by suicide

6 illness or medical

25 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them22 of 25

Most recent death on the state's record2025-12-18

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 Solano 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 Solano 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