Upshaw v. Superior Court of Alameda Cnty.

*494Petitioner Tikisha Marie Upshaw is incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail (SRJ) in Alameda County, awaiting trial for, among other things, special circumstance murder. By petition of writ of mandate, Upshaw challenges a trial court order denying her motion for a transfer from SRJ to a jail in a contiguous county. We deny the petition. In this case of first impression, we conclude Penal Code section 4007 authorizes a trial court to transfer a prisoner in a county *507jail to another jail in a contiguous county upon a sufficient evidentiary showing the current jail is unsafe for confinement, but that…