Plumas County Inmate Population Snapshot
The Plumas County inmate population is unusually concentrated for a California county. Research found one local adult jail: the Plumas County Correctional Facility, operated by the Plumas County Sheriff's Office in Quincy. No separate city jail, regional jail, federal prison, ICE detention center, or CDCR adult prison was identified inside Plumas County from the official facility sources reviewed. That makes the local jail the first place to check for recent Plumas arrests, pretrial custody, short county sentences, and people waiting for court or transfer.
The current BSCC rated-capacity workbook noted in the research lists 61 rated beds for the Plumas County Correctional Facility. Older county and BSCC planning material described a 67-bed jail after the 1985 addition, so capacity references should be read by source and date. BSCC Jail Profile Survey annualized data reported 33.6 average daily population in both 2024 and 2025. No official live daily roster count for 2026 was located, so the best public population view is the BSCC jail data rather than a county-hosted daily dashboard.
Plumas County Inmate Population Statistics
Official jail statistics show a small but active local custody system. BSCC annualized data lists 642 bookings in 2025, up from 538 in 2024 but still lower than 804 in 2022. Vera's Plumas County fact sheet, using 2021 data, rounded jail ADP to 37 and reported 751 admissions that year. The same Vera source reported that 63% of the 2021 jail population was pretrial and 19% had mental health needs, which helps explain why the Plumas County inmate population cannot be read only as a sentenced population.
| Measure | Figure | Source and Date |
|---|---|---|
| Average daily population | 33.6 | BSCC JPS annualized data, 2025 |
| Annual bookings | 642 | BSCC JPS annualized data, 2025 |
| Rated capacity | 61 | BSCC rated-capacity resources, updated April 2026 |
| Highest one-day population | 49 | BSCC JPS annualized data, 2025 |
| State-prison link | 35 people from Plumas County in state prison | Vera fact sheet, 2021 data |
The county's small scale makes a few bookings or transfers visible in the trend line. In late 2025, BSCC monthly examples showed October ADP at 40, November ADP at 39, and December ADP at 28. Those monthly shifts are normal in a rural jail, where court calendars, release decisions, and transfer timing can move the population more sharply than in a large urban jail.
Plumas County Jail Population Trends
The older BSCC Plumas dataset showed the Plumas County inmate population rising from 37.2 ADP in 2011 to just over 50 ADP in 2014 and 2015. Later annualized BSCC data shows a lower range, with 36.8 ADP in 2021 and 2022, 35.2 in 2023, and 33.6 in 2024 and 2025. The research also noted that the jail planning needs assessment tied local demand to Realignment-era changes, average length of stay, and county population decline.
| Year | ADP | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37.2 | BSCC Plumas average daily population dataset |
| 2014 | 50.8 | Highest year in the 2011-2015 table |
| 2021 | 36.8 | BSCC annualized data; Vera rounds to 37 |
| 2023 | 35.2 | BSCC annualized data |
| 2025 | 33.6 | BSCC annualized data through 2025 Q4 |
Who Makes Up Plumas County Inmates
BSCC's 2025 custody mix shows that the Plumas County inmate population was mostly nonsentenced and felony-linked on an average day. The annualized 2025 data reported 20.2 nonsentenced male ADP and 4.2 nonsentenced female ADP, compared with 8.3 sentenced male ADP and 0.8 sentenced female ADP. By charge level, felony ADP totaled 25.0 while misdemeanor ADP totaled 8.6. Federal contract, state contract, and other-county contract categories were all 0.0 in that 2025 table.
- Nonsentenced custody: 24.4 ADP in 2025, combining male and female nonsentenced categories.
- Sentenced custody: 9.1 ADP in 2025, combining male and female sentenced categories.
- Felony custody: 25.0 ADP in 2025, including nonsentenced and sentenced felony categories.
- Misdemeanor custody: 8.6 ADP in 2025, including nonsentenced and sentenced misdemeanor categories.
These categories matter for search. A pretrial person may still be in the Plumas County Correctional Facility. A sentenced person with a state-prison term moves into CDCR custody and should be checked through CIRIS after transfer.
Laws Governing Plumas County Inmates
California law supplies the public-record frame for Plumas jail information. The local reality is narrower than the state rule because Plumas does not publish an official online jail roster in the reviewed sources. Still, arrest, booking, jail standards, and in-custody death records are governed by state statutes and BSCC rules.
Government Code section 7923.610 covers public release of specified arrest and booking information, subject to safety and investigation limits.
Penal Code section 6030 requires BSCC minimum standards for local correctional facilities.
Title 15 minimum standards govern adult local detention operations, including population accounting.
Penal Code section 10008 requires public website posting of specified in-custody death information.
Search Plumas County Inmates
No official public online Plumas County jail roster was located in the reviewed sheriff, jail, forms, or county search sources. That is the main local lookup fact. The official jail page instead says correctional officers may release charges and bail amounts by phone, while court dates and release information are not given out for safety reasons. The official jail page points court-information questions to Plumas Superior Court.
- Call the Plumas County Correctional Facility at (530) 283-6267 for current custody, charges, and bail amounts that staff may release.
- For court dates, filed charges, or case documents, contact Plumas Superior Court at (530) 283-6232 or use its record-search request channels.
- For sheriff booking, CAD, crime-report, or coroner records, use the sheriff Application for Release of Public Record.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, search CDCR CIRIS.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS.
- For custody or release notification where data is available, search VINELink California.
The official jail page shown in the screenshot source is the best starting point for local custody contacts and jail menu links. See the Plumas County jail page for the source page reflected below.
The page confirms the jail phone, information limits, and related custody-service links, which is why the Plumas County inmate search workflow begins with phone and records channels rather than a public roster.
Plumas County Roster Search Fields
Because no official online Plumas County jail roster was located, the local roster field table is intentionally short. The searchable fields that do exist in the research are fallback fields for CDCR, BOP, ICE, court requests, and sheriff records requests. This prevents a reader from looking for a booking number box or mugshot profile that the official county site does not publish.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| No official online Plumas jail roster located | N/A | N/A | Use jail phone, court, sheriff records, CDCR, BOP, ICE, and VINELink channels. |
| CDCR number | Text | Optional or exact-match route | Used in CIRIS for sentenced California state-prison custody. |
| BOP register number | Text | Required for number search | Federal BOP format appears as five digits, hyphen, three digits. |
| ICE A-Number | Text | Required for A-Number search | ODLS requires nine digits and country of birth. |
What Plumas County Inmate Records Show
A Plumas County inmate record is channel-specific. By phone, the jail may release charges and bail amounts. It does not release court dates or release information. By sheriff public-record request, the requester may ask for CAD incident reports, crime reports, coroner reports, or other specified records, subject to denial, redaction, or referral. By court request, the public record may show filed charging documents, dispositions, sentencing orders, protective orders, and other court-file material that is not confidential, sealed, purged, or otherwise restricted.
| Channel | What It Can Show |
|---|---|
| Jail phone line | Charges and bail amounts, if staff can release them. |
| Jail phone limits | Court dates and release information are withheld for safety reasons. |
| Sheriff public-record request | CAD incident reports, crime reports, coroner reports, or other records, subject to limits. |
| Superior Court request | Public case files, charging documents, dispositions, sentencing orders, and expungement orders. |
| CDCR CIRIS | State sentenced custody lookup, not a local jail booking record. |
County Jail vs State Prison
The Plumas County inmate population and the California state-prison population overlap only after sentencing and transfer. Local arrests, pretrial detention, short county sentences, and alternative custody start with the sheriff-run jail. State-prison terms are searched through CDCR. Federal custody is searched through BOP, and immigration detention through ICE. VINELink may help with notification where the participating source sends data.
| Question | Plumas County Jail | CDCR State Prison |
|---|---|---|
| Run By | Plumas County Sheriff's Office | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Who It Covers | Pretrial detainees, local sentences, court or transfer holds | People sentenced to California state prison |
| Lookup Route | Jail phone and records request because no online roster was found | CIRIS statewide locator |
| Records Detail | Charges and bail by phone when releasable | State custody location and CDCR record details when available |
Plumas County Detention Facilities
The facility list for Plumas County has one local adult detention page. That narrow map is important. People arrested in Portola, Quincy, or county areas may be booked into the same sheriff-run correctional facility when local jail custody is required. People who leave local custody for CDCR, BOP, or ICE must be searched in those separate systems.
- Plumas County Correctional Facility - the county jail in Quincy for local Plumas pretrial detainees, county sentences, court holds, transfer waits, and approved alternative-custody cases.
Plumas County Jail Terms
Several record terms appear across the Plumas County inmate population research. A short glossary helps separate jail custody from court records and state-prison custody.
- Booking
- The jail intake process after arrest, including identity, property, charges, and custody steps.
- Charge
- An alleged offense. Booking charges may differ from formal court charges filed later by the prosecutor.
- Bail
- Money or security tied to release while a case is pending. Plumas jail staff may release bail amounts by phone.
- Detainer or hold
- Another agency's request or legal hold that can keep a person in custody even after local bail is addressed.
- CIRIS
- CDCR's statewide California Incarcerated Records and Information Search for sentenced state-prison custody.
Plumas County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Plumas County inmate population?
BSCC annualized data reported 33.6 average daily population in 2025, with a highest one-day population of 49. The current rated capacity noted from BSCC rated-capacity resources is 61 beds.
Does Plumas County publish an online jail roster?
No official public online current-inmate roster was located in the reviewed Plumas County jail, sheriff, forms, or county search sources. The local search path starts with the jail phone line and records channels.
What can jail staff release by phone?
The official jail page says correctional officers can release charges and bail amounts. It also says court dates and release information are not given out for safety reasons.
Where are sentenced Plumas County prisoners searched?
After a state-prison sentence and transfer, search CDCR CIRIS rather than the Plumas jail. Federal and immigration custody use BOP and ICE locators.