usually find themselves backed into the orange county jail. what are you in for? have you been in jail before? yes, sir. look here at the camera for me. the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jails. the largest of these is the theo lacy jail with an average daily population of 2,800 male inmates. theo lacy, alum to many of our state prisons. . i have an assistant sheriff at theo lacy. he always likes to say we don t have andy of mayberry. we don t have otis coming into the jail tank. that s not the county jail we have. we have 400 people in custody for murder. we don t have people in jail for simple possession of marijuana like some might think. we have very serious felony inmates in our custody