The Detention Center
Bob Wiley Detention Facility; Adult Pre-Trial Facility; South County Detention Facility
- Operated byTulare County Sheriff's Office — Detentions Division
- County publishes a jail nameYes — each of the three adult detention facilities has its own page under the Detentions division
- Detentions Division CommanderCaptain Cyrena Robles
- Also operatedDay Reporting Center (DRC)
- Facilities named in the county's own death reportsSouth County Detention Facility; Adult Pre-Trial Facility
- Rated capacity1,589 beds across 3 facilities
Source: Tulare County Sheriff's Office — Detentions · 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found — the three facility pages publish no bed count or daily population
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mike Boudreaux
- Title as publishedSheriff; the office publishes as 'Tulare County Sheriff-Coroner'
- Also serves asCounty Coroner — the Coroner Unit is a unit of the Sheriff's Office
- Coroner information pagehttps://tularecounty.ca.gov/sheriff/media/coroner-information
- Coroner phone as published(559) 687-7000
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tulare County Sheriff's Office — Coroner Information · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Large multi-judge court; per the brief only the Presiding Judge and Assistant Presiding Judge are listed. Both are named in the Court Leadership block on the court's home page, alongside Court Executive Officer Stephanie Cameron. Commissioners who handle arraignment and bail calendars are not individually named there.
- 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
- tularecounty.ca.gov is behind a challenge page that blocks direct requests from this network; every page cited here was read through a rendering proxy that returns the live page content.
- The Sheriff's full published navigation (48 department links, including every Detentions sub-page) was enumerated. There is no PREA page, no jail inspection page, no contracts or per-diem page and no bail-posting page.
- Fees: the Inmate Phone Service page names ICSolutions and says calls and voicemail carry 'an additional fee' without publishing rates; the Video Visitation page publishes scheduling rules only.
- The county publishes a separate AB 485 hate crime statistics page and Coroner Releases alongside the AB 2761 page, which indicates the death reporting is a deliberate standing disclosure rather than an incidental press release.
- Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district.
What California law requires
Tulare County posts a death-in-custody page.
Posts 7 of 7The page is here. A standing page under the Sheriff's Media section titled 'AB 2761 - In Custody Deaths' links eight individual reports dated 1/11/23, 6/5/23, 6/7/23, 5/11/24, 7/21/24, 4/18/25, 6/11/25 and 8/3/25. Each report is laid out against the statute's five numbered headings and supplies the agency (Tulare County Sheriff's Office), date with manner and means, county and facility, race, gender and age, and custodial status. Two gaps are visible in the entries read: the facility is named but no location within the facility is given (for example '8-03-25 ... Tulare County / South County Detention Facility'), and the custodial status field is answered with the booking charges rather than with the statutory categories of awaiting arraignment, awaiting trial or incarcerated.
- ✓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
28 people have died in the Tulare 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 Tulare 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.
- Find your polling place and check your registration →
- Your county elections office →
- Register to vote in California →
The county elections office runs the polling place in Tulare 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