The Custody Division handles:

• Jail Facility Operations
  
  
• Station Transfers of arrestees from the police stations to the intake jail
  
  
• Transportation of prisoners between facilities and courts

Jail Information (Rules & Regulations) Visiting a Prisoner Jail Visiting Schedules Directory (Jail addresses & phones) The San Francisco County Jail system houses an average daily population of 2,200 prisoners in five jails, County Jails #1, 2, 5, 7 and 8. The system includes an intake and release facility, County Jail #9, and a ward in San Francisco General Hospital, Ward 7D/7L. Approximately 55,000 people are booked into the jails annually.

County Jail #8, the newest jail facility in San Francisco, was opened in December of 1994, next to the Hall of Justice. This direct supervision facility has become a national model for program-oriented prisoner rehabilitation. Some 400 inmates participate in G.E.D., E.S.L. programs, alcohol and drug abuse counseling, and family unification.

County Jail #9 includes the new intake and booking facility. The building's dramatic architectural design was praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Allan Temko, who called it "a stunning victory for architectural freedom over bureaucratic stupidity."