Santa Rita Jail

Yelp Reviews of Bay Area Jails and Prisons Reveal Helpful Insider Tips

Reading restaurant reviews on Yelp is a popular local pastime, but the site's reviews of local jails, police stations and prisons are a much more fertile source of page-turning insight from the inside.

"What is this, Belfast in 1970?" asks one user in a review of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Their writeup contains a useful warning to wear layers to your next protest or drunk evening out because they say the holding cells at Santa Rita are "freezing and squalid." Oh, and you'll probably lose your shoelaces as well.

Potential minor law-breakers in the Mission District might similarly like to know that the police station there has, according to another Yelper, "the cleanest public restrooms in the Mission!" 

And then there's this gem about San Quentin: "Apparently it's not just for murderers."

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