The Detention System of the Harris County Sheriff's Office is divided into two commands with three main jail facilities:

1. The 1200 Baker Jail
2. The 701 San Jacinto Jail
3. The 1307 Baker Jail

Some Quick Facts:

• At any one time, the Detention System houses over 7,000 inmates. These inmates generally include pretrial felony and misdemeanor defendants, post-conviction misdemeanants serving county time, post-conviction felons awaiting transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice as well as inmates bench-warranted from TDCJ for court appearances, fugitives awaiting transport out of the county or state and prisoners awaiting return to military authorities.
  
  
• The Detention System is staffed with approximately 1500 men and women certified as detention officers or peace officers (sheriff's deputies) by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training (TCLEOSE).
  
  
• Each of the three main jails, the 1200 Jail, the 701 Jail and the 1307 Jail, have a modern kitchen facilities that together prepare approximately 25,000 hot meals per day. A registered dietician makes up each day's menu to ensure inmates receive a proper diet. Special meals are prepared for inmates with medical, dietary or religious requirements.
  
  
• The 1200 Jail and the 701 Jail, in partnership with the University of Texas Health Science Center, have well-equipped medical clinics open twenty-four hours per day and seven days a week. These clinics treat inmates' minor medical complaints and injuries; a medical doctor is on duty at all times. Nurses make rounds of each cellblock and ensure inmates received medications prescribed by doctors. Should additional chronic or emergency care be required, inmates are sent to appropriate facilities operated by the Harris County Hospital District.
  
  
• Approximately 600 inmates are transferred to various courts in the Houston area each Monday through Friday. In 2002, approximately 111,110 inmates were booked into the Detention System and 107,596 were booked out. Approximately 18,040 inmates were transferred to other detention environments.
  

The total capacity of the County jail system is:

The Inmate Education Program, in partnership with the Houston Community College System, conducts more than thirty classes, with an average inmate student body of 800. The jail print shop performs print jobs not only for the department, but for other county agencies as well, at an annual cost savings to taxpayers of more than $1,000,000.