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California · County seat: Marysville · Checked 2026-08-23

Yuba County

The jail, the sheriff who runs it, and the judges who decide who sits inside. Every fact below comes from a named public record. Anything not yet sourced is marked still needed rather than guessed.

The Detention Center

Yuba County Jail

Source: BSCC — statewide local detention facility list (August 4, 2026) · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

0/10Closed

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Yuba 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.

Since then

  • Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Wendell Anderson

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

Source: California State Sheriffs' Association — Sheriffs Directory · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Six-department court; all judicial officers shown on the published assignments page are listed. Department 2 (Judge Wirtschafter) carries infraction arraignments and misdemeanor trials and Department 3 (Judge Scrogin) carries felony trials; the page does not label any single courtroom as the bail-setting calendar. Judge Bendorf is also Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division. No commissioner is listed. Court address as published: 215 Fifth Street, Suite 200, Marysville, CA 95901.

Superior Court of California, County of Yuba — Presiding Judge (Department 1)

  • Debra L. Givens

Superior Court of California, County of Yuba — Department 2 (Criminal Law, Infraction Arraignment, Misdemeanor Trials, Traffic Court Trials)

  • Benjamin Z. Wirtschafter

Superior Court of California, County of Yuba — Department 3 (Criminal Law, Felony Trials)

  • Julia L. Scrogin

Superior Court of California, County of Yuba — Other Departments

  • Stephen W. Berrier
  • Melanie K. Bendorf
  • Kim E. McBride Pera
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.

Notes on the record

What California law requires

We could not find a death-in-custody page for Yuba County.

No page found

No AB 2761 or in-custody-death page could be located, and no conclusion about whether one exists should be drawn: the county's website is unreachable from this environment. URLs tried: https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/ , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/departments/sheriff/default.aspx , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/departments/Sheriff/ , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/Sheriff , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/sitemap.xml , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/robots.txt , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/1 , https://www.co.yuba.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1 , https://www.yuba.org/ , https://www.yuba.org/departments/sheriff/ , https://yubacounty.gov/ , https://www.yubacounty.gov/ , https://www.yubasheriff.org/ , https://yubasheriff.org/ , https://www.yubasheriff.com/ , https://www.yubacountysheriff.com/ , https://sheriff.yuba.org/ . All requests to www.co.yuba.ca.us returned a Cloudflare 403 block page regardless of user agent, path or HTTP version, including from a full browser; the remaining hostnames either do not resolve or serve a default IIS placeholder. A page may exist somewhere we did not look. If you know of one, tell us and we will correct this.

  • —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

6 people have died in the Yuba County jail since 2017.

2 by suicide
1 illness or medical
6 deaths in all, 2016 onward
Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them4 of 6
Most recent death on the state's record2025-09-08

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 Yuba 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 Yuba 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