Find Wayne Brown Correctional Inmates

Wayne Brown Facility Role

Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is operated by the Nevada County Sheriff and serves as Sierra County's primary contracted jail housing location. Sierra County's Temporary Housing Facility page says Sierra inmates are housed primarily in Nevada County at Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City. Sierra Superior Court's criminal division also points custody questions after arrest to Wayne Brown at 530-265-1291. That makes Wayne Brown the practical jail roster destination for many current Sierra County inmate searches, even though the court case remains a Sierra County matter.

The facility's public address for this page is 925 Maidu Avenue, Nevada City, CA 95959. The Sierra County role is not occasional or theoretical. A 2024-2025 Sierra County CCP plan identifies Wayne Brown as the contracted jail facility, and a June 24, 2025 Sierra board item says Sierra has not operated a jail facility since 2015 and has housed inmates under agreement with Nevada County since then. The 2025 agreement describes booking and housing for Sierra arrestees before arraignment, later hearings, and sentences.

Nevada County's search guidance is directly relevant to Sierra County because Sierra routes many custody searches to Wayne Brown. The source screenshot comes from the Nevada County search for an incarcerated person page.

The Nevada County search page helps explain why a Sierra County inmate may be looked up through a Nevada County roster after transfer from local temporary holding.

Wayne Brown Population Caveat

A Sierra-specific rated capacity for Wayne Brown Correctional Facility was not located in the Sierra County sources reviewed. That figure should not be invented. For Sierra readers, the more useful population fact is contract use. Sierra's 2025 board item increased the daily housing rate from $136 to $140 per inmate and extended jail services through fiscal year 2027/28, with optional renewals. Nevada County may accept, decline, or return Sierra inmates as needed under that agreement, and it will not accept Sierra sentences shorter than 24 hours.

This contract detail explains some roster timing problems. A person arrested in Sierra County may not appear on the Nevada County roster until Nevada County has accepted and processed the person. If the person is still in Downieville, has been released, or was sent to Plumas County instead, a Wayne Brown roster search may return no result.

Search Wayne Brown Roster

The correct online lookup for Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is the Nevada County Inmates in Custody report. The search prompt asks for the first few letters of the person's last name. Results captured in the research showed the full name, book date, sex, Tuesday and Thursday visiting hours, Wednesday and Friday visiting hours, and a VINE release-notification link. The public report did not show a full Sierra booking profile with charges, bail, mugshot, court date, or housing unit in the captured text.

1. Open the Nevada County Inmates in Custody report linked by Sierra County.
2. Enter the first few letters of the last name, trying alternate spellings or hyphenated names if needed.
3. Review the result row for book date, sex, visiting-hour fields, and VINE notification options.
4. Call Wayne Brown at 530-265-1291 for specific custody or visiting questions.
5. For a Sierra criminal case, use Sierra Superior Court for filed charges, court dates, and dispositions.

Wayne Brown Contact Card

Use Wayne Brown for physical custody questions after the person is housed in Nevada County. Use Sierra County Sheriff-Coroner when the person was just arrested and the destination is uncertain. Use Sierra Superior Court for Sierra court case questions. This division prevents a common error: calling the jail for a court record or calling the Sierra court for a visit slot.

Wayne Brown Visitation Schedule

The Nevada County roster guidance says public visiting hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., by appointment only. Arrangements must be made with the incarcerated person. Lobby hours are posted as 9-11:30 a.m., 12:30-4 p.m., and 5-6 p.m. The same guidance warns that visitations may be suspended without warning, so a roster row with a visiting window is not a guarantee that a visit will happen.

Visitors should bring current government-issued identification and confirm the person's specific visiting status. Nevada County FAQ guidance says visits can depend on the incarcerated person's arrangements, visitor approval, and facility conditions. Video visits are handled through GettingOut when available.

Wayne Brown Mail and Money

The Nevada County corrections FAQ gives the mail, commissary, video, and trust-account rules that matter once a Sierra inmate is housed at Wayne Brown. The FAQ says mail should be addressed to the incarcerated person's name, Wayne Brown Correctional Facility: 2100 or Truckee Substation Jail: 2101, P.O. Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. That Las Vegas address is a mail-processing address, not the Nevada City public entrance. Confirm the person's housing before sending mail.

The Nevada County FAQ is also the source for money and video details. See the Nevada County Corrections Division FAQs for posted vendor guidance.

The FAQ screenshot is useful because Wayne Brown mail and deposit rules differ sharply from Sierra's Downieville temporary holding rules.

Wayne Brown Booking Transfers

Wayne Brown's Sierra County role includes more than bed space. The 2025 Sierra agreement describes booking and housing for Sierra arrestees before arraignment, later court hearings, and local sentences. Nevada County photographs each Sierra arrestee and emails a copy to Sierra County. That detail helps explain why a booking photo may exist even when Sierra County does not publish a mugshot gallery and the Nevada public list does not show a photo in the captured roster text.

Transfer timing can create search gaps. A person may be arrested in Sierra County, booked or held temporarily in Downieville, transported to Nevada County, returned to Sierra for court, released, or later moved to CDCR if sentenced to state prison. The Sierra County inmate population is therefore best understood as a regional custody flow rather than a single local jail list. If Wayne Brown does not show a person who was just arrested, call Sierra before assuming release.

Wayne Brown Court Routing

Wayne Brown can answer many custody questions, but Sierra County court records remain with Sierra Superior Court when the case is a Sierra case. The Nevada roster can show custody and visiting-window information. It is not the filed criminal complaint, plea record, minute order, or disposition. For court-date questions on a Sierra case, use Sierra Superior Court's criminal division and calendar resources rather than Nevada County court unless the person also has a Nevada County case.

For charges and bail, the answer depends on the source. Nevada County custody staff may be able to answer facility-status questions for a person held at Wayne Brown. Formal filed charges are court records. Sheriff reports are law-enforcement records and can be limited while the case is active. These boundaries help avoid treating a roster result as a complete criminal-history report.