One-third of people headed into Sacramento County jails each month were identified as homeless in the past year, new data show — a number that shows little has changed since the start of the decade.
The newly released data from 2025 and 2026 show that there were more bookings of homeless people than there were homeless individuals each month, meaning that some were booked into jail, released, and then jailed again within the same month.
A spokesperson for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for a comment…