Chico Jail is located in the city of Chico, California which has a population of 86,187 (as of 2016) residents. Prisoners are housed in separate areas depending on the crimes they committed, their current risk assessment, and their behavior. This facility is currently under the supervision of Chief of Police Michael O'Brien and houses male and female offenders.

If you have a family or loved one that is currently incarcerated at Chico Jail, the first thing you should do is contact the prison for information on the inmate. Based on the information you are provided, you would then contact either a criminal defense lawyer or a bail bond service. They will provide you with vital information which can be used to defend an individual and in a lot of cases get them released from detention while awaiting trial.

Chico Jail Facility and Inmate Contact Information:

Phone Number to Reach this Facility is:

(530) 897-4900

Fax Number for Chico Jail is:

(530) 895-4994

Send Mail to the Facility (not inmates):

Chico Jail
1460 Humboldt Road
Chico, CA 95928

To Send Mail to an Inmate at Chico Jail:

(please get a list of acceptable mail from the facility)

Chico Jail
Inmate Name, Inmate ID #
1460 Humboldt Road
Chico, CA 95928

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Recent News for Chico California Police Department:

Feb 20, 2017 - The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office has found a lost, imperiled young person revealing missing from her Dunsmuir home and last found in the region on Thursday, Feb. 9. The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office detailed the accompanying: SCSO has found an absent, jeopardized young person revealing missing from her Dunsmuir home and last found in the range on Thursday, Feb. 9. Victoria Lara, 15, of Dunsmuir, was most recently seen on Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Chico, California, territory. Lara seemed to have deliberately abandoned her home and, because of various variables, was viewed as "jeopardized" by SCSO agents. On Saturday, Feb. 18, a SCSO Detective from the Department's Major Crimes Unit was doled out to organize a look for the missing youngster in the Chico zone. SCSO's MCU investigators had been working intimately with the Chico Police Department to find the missing young person after she was most recently seen in their locale. SCSO's Detective Jesus Fernandez was in the region when he got a report from the Orland Police Department that they had found the missing youngster at a living arrangement in the Orland, California, region. As indicated by OPD, a resident revealed a locating of the adolescent and construct their perceptions in light of late news reports. Lara was apparently remaining at a neighborhood Orland living arrangement for around two days. At first, she was kept by OPD for affirmed law infringement and she at first neglected to give her actual name, be that as it may; OPD officers felt she coordinated the portrayal of the current SCSO "Jeopardized Missing Person" release and late news media reports scattered to neighborhood and provincial media outlets. Fernandez reacted to Orland, a consolidated city in Tehama County, roughly 125 miles south of Lara's Dunsmuir home. With help from the Tehama County Sheriff's Office and OPD, and Fernandez' affirmation, the young person was decidedly distinguished and exchanged to the guardianship of Tehama County kid welfare authorities. Tehama County and Siskiyou County youngster welfare offices are planning watch over Lara and her mom was advised of her sheltered recuperation. As indicated by Sheriff Jon Lopey, "We are colossally mitigated that Victoria was discovered safe and in sensibly great wellbeing. We are likewise appreciative for the unprecedented bolster we got from the Chico Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Office, the Orland Police Department, and Tehama and Siskiyou County kid welfare offices. We likewise got help and support from Victoria's family, various news media outlets, and nationals in Chico and Orland. "For all intents and purposes all government, state, and neighborhood law implementation offices in the district were searching for Victoria and we welcome that support. We suspect that Victoria will be brought together with her family soon. Any young person truant from their home for expanded timeframes is jeopardized and numerous nationals don't understand a considerable lot of these high school runaways fall prey to human trafficking predators. Once more, we are, extremely eased that Victoria was found and she is currently sheltered. Anybody with data about Victoria's vanishing or her exercises from Feb. 9–18 is encouraged to contact the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office's MCU at our 24-hour Dispatch Center at (530) 841-2900."