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Wayne County CJC Overview

Wayne County Criminal Justice Center - Adult Detention Facility sits inside the county's newer criminal justice campus in Detroit. The official county CJC page describes a four-building campus of more than one million square feet. It brings the Adult Detention Facility together with the Sheriff's Office, the Prosecutor's Office, the County Clerk criminal records office, the Third Judicial Circuit criminal courts, the Juvenile Detention Facility, and MDOC offices. That layout matters for inmate lookup work because custody, prosecution, court records, and clerk records are related but still controlled by different offices.

The jail function is run by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Adult detainees may include people waiting for arraignment or later hearings, people serving a county jail sentence, and people listed under a Wayne County custody status in the sheriff's data. The sheriff's roster also includes housing choices such as Adult Detention Facility, Electronic Monitoring Unit, Residential MH Treatment Programs, and Wayne County Jail. A person can be under Wayne County supervision without being in the CJC housing area on the day a search is run.

The county's CJC overview screenshot in the project manifest comes from the Wayne County Criminal Justice Center page and shows the campus context behind the adult detention facility.

Use the campus page for building orientation, but use the sheriff roster and jail service pages for current custody, visits, money, and bond steps.

Wayne County CJC Capacity

The current county page says the Wayne County Criminal Justice Center will house nearly 2,500 adult and juvenile residents. That is a campus-wide resident statement, not a separate adult-only rated capacity for the Adult Detention Facility. Vera's Wayne County jail materials cited a projected 2,280-bed jail before opening. The safer reading is that Wayne County publishes a broad CJC resident capacity and older planning sources cite a jail bed figure, while a distinct adult-only rated capacity was not separately published in the county page reviewed.

For live custody numbers, the Wayne County jail dashboard is more useful than a static capacity line. The dashboard draws from the jail management system and separates jail-only and tether or electronic monitoring views. It also includes bookings, releases, demographics, housing availability, length of stay, and mental health alert categories. The public inmate roster result page inspected on June 17, 2026 showed 2,302 entries, but that count includes filters broader than a bed count and should not be treated as the exact number of people sleeping in CJC housing.

Search Wayne County CJC Inmates

Current Wayne County Criminal Justice Center - Adult Detention Facility lookup starts with the Wayne County Sheriff Inmate Inquiry. The portal is the official public search for county jail custody and county supervision records. It is a starting point, not the final word on a charge, court case, or bond type. SheriffConnect tells users to confirm those details with the court of jurisdiction or request non-displayed jail information in writing through FOIA.

1. Open the sheriff's inmate inquiry and search by name, subject number, booking number, date range, custody status, or housing facility.
2. Use the housing dropdown if the person may be listed under Adult Detention Facility, Electronic Monitoring Unit, Residential MH Treatment Programs, or Wayne County Jail.
3. Open the profile to review the booking number, booking date, bond entries, charges, court dates, docket numbers, and disposition fields that are available.
4. For a Detroit arrest that has not reached county custody, check Detroit Police or Detroit Detention Center channels first. For a state prison sentence, search MDOC OTIS instead.

Wayne County CJC Contact

The Wayne County Criminal Justice Center uses one Russell Street campus, but offices inside it have different roles. The Adult Detention Center is listed by the county in Suite 500, while the Sheriff's Office is listed in Suite 400. The County Clerk criminal records office, prosecutor, circuit court, and MDOC office are also on the campus. Calling the right office helps avoid mixing custody questions with court-record questions.

The Sheriff's FOIA page lists Cynthia Golson as FOIA Coordinator at 5301 Russell Street, Detroit, MI 48211, with 313-833-0562 and cgolson@waynecountymi.gov. For booking details that do not appear online, the sheriff directs the public to written FOIA requests through the sheriff's page or the county NextRequest portal.

Wayne County CJC Visits

Wayne County personal visitation is video-based. The official SheriffConnect visitation page says personal visits are conducted remotely by secure web-based video visit kiosks on housing units. The public video visitation suite is on the first floor of the CJC Administration Building near the Visitation Center. Visitors need valid government-issued photo identification and must follow behavior rules during the visit.

Electronic devices, smoking products and accessories, weapons, and items treated as security risks are prohibited. Officers cannot accept visitor items for safekeeping. The county's CJC visiting page also warns that visitors should use designated parking lots and that there is no visitor parking or drop-off area at the CJC site itself.

The CJC visiting screenshot in the manifest comes from the county CJC visiting page, which lists parking lots and campus suite contacts.

Parking Lot B at 5560 Rivard Street and Parking Lot C at 5300 Russell Street are the specific visitor lots named by the county.

Wayne County CJC Money

Money and commissary rules are published through SheriffConnect. The jail commissary page names Continental Distributors doing business as Canteen Correctional Services as the commissary provider. SheriffConnect says commissary sells items such as snacks, hygiene products, clothing, and phone time, and that profits from commissary operations are used to fund inmate programs.

Funds can be deposited through the lobby kiosk, internet, and telephone. TouchPay deposits require Wayne County facility number 248211 and the inmate's 10-digit booking number. Phone deposits go through TouchPay at 866-204-1603. Care packages use JailATM. SheriffConnect did not publish a full inmate mail policy in the sources reviewed, so mail formatting should be confirmed with the Adult Detention Center before sending items that may be rejected.

The commissary screenshot comes from the official Wayne County jail commissary page and matches the deposit and vendor details used for the Adult Detention Facility.

Fees for TouchPay and JailATM were not published on the SheriffConnect page reviewed, so fee amounts should not be assumed.

Wayne County CJC Booking

A county jail booking record is created when the person reaches the jail management system. The Wayne County profile may show a booking number, booking date and time, total bond amount, bond rows, charges, hearing dates, docket numbers, sentence data, disposition, sentence length, and crime class. It is a custody record, not a complete criminal history report. It also may not show a booking photo in the text-rendered profile.

For people arrested by Detroit Police, Detroit Detention Center may be the first stop before arraignment. If a warrant or charge is authorized, the person can move into the Wayne County jail and court path. A person who posts bond still may not be released until the jail Registry Unit processes the person and a LEIN check is completed for other wants, warrants, or holds. If another charge or hold remains, one paid bond may not end custody.

About Wayne County CJC

The Wayne County Criminal Justice Center changed the local custody map by centralizing functions once split among older downtown justice buildings. County materials describe 26 criminal courtrooms, criminal court offices, sheriff administration, prosecution, clerk criminal records, juvenile detention, adult detention, and MDOC space on the same campus. That helps explain why a Wayne County inmate record can touch several offices on the same address but still require different records channels.

Directions and access details are also specific to this campus. The official address is 5301 Russell Street, Detroit, MI 48211, near the Russell Street approaches from I-75, Mack Avenue, and Gratiot Avenue. The county lists the Adult Detention Center in Suite 500, Sheriff's Office in Suite 400, Prosecutor in Suite 200, Third Circuit Court in Suite 700, County Clerk criminal records in Suite 100, and MDOC in Suite 450. Public transit route details were not published on the county page reviewed, so route and walking distance should be checked with DDOT or SMART before travel.