Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility Overview
Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility is a county-operated short-term secure juvenile detention facility linked from the Clarke County Sheriff's Department page. The 2024 PREA audit identifies it as a county facility at 149 Clarke Street, Grove Hill, AL 36451, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 913. The facility is separate from the adult Clarke County Jail even though both are part of the local detention map.
The official county overview PDF says the facility was established on April 6, 2015 with approval from the Clarke County Commission. Before it opened, Clarke County transported juvenile offenders more than 55 miles to Bay Minette. The facility receives male and female juveniles ages 13-18 from the Juvenile Courts of Clarke County for temporary secure custody pending court disposition, transfer to a long-term facility, or return home.
Juvenile detention is not public roster content. Alabama law and court-record privacy rules restrict access to juvenile legal, social, and detention records. Public-facing material should describe the facility, contacts, capacity, PREA compliance, and general routing without publishing juvenile names, photos, custody status, allegations, or case details.
Clarke County Juvenile Detention Capacity and Population
The official 2024 PREA audit report for Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility lists designated facility capacity as 2. The official county overview says the facility serves both female and male juveniles ages 13-18 from Clarke County Juvenile Courts. No public roster, current juvenile census, demographic breakdown, or name-level detention list was located, and those details should not be treated as public adult-jail information.
How Juvenile Detention Information Is Handled
There is no public juvenile inmate roster for Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility. Do not search for juvenile names or mugshots through adult jail pages. Family and legal inquiries should go through the juvenile court process, the child's attorney, and the facility contacts. For adult custody, use Clarke County Jail; for formal court-record access, use the Clarke County First Judicial Circuit court page and the circuit clerk where the record is legally available.
- Confirm whether the matter is juvenile or adult custody before using any jail lookup route.
- For juvenile matters, contact the juvenile court, family attorney, or authorized facility contact rather than an adult roster.
- Do not request or publish juvenile names, photos, allegations, custody status, or detention details through public pages.
- Use adult jail, ADOC, BOP, or ICE systems only when the person and custody status fall within those separate systems.
Juvenile privacy: Juvenile legal and detention records are confidential except where a court order, statute, or authorized role allows access.
Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility Address and Contact
The 2024 PREA audit lists Jennifer Robertson as Administrator, Superintendent, or Director, with telephone (251) 275-4254. It also lists Renee Davis as PREA Compliance Manager at (251) 275-8132 and QCHC, Inc. as health service administrator with the same phone number. The county PREA explainer also names Jennifer Robertson as PREA Coordinator and gives Regional Child Advocacy Center / Mary English as an outside reporting contact at (251) 275-2804.
Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility
149 Clarke Street
Grove Hill, AL 36451
Mailing: P.O. Box 913, Grove Hill, AL 36451
(251) 275-4254
Jennifer Robertson, administrator / PREA coordinator contact.
PREA Compliance Contact
Renee Davis, PREA Compliance Manager
(251) 275-8132
QCHC, Inc. health service administrator contact is also listed at this number.
Visiting or Contacting a Juvenile at This Facility
No public visitation schedule, public call schedule, public video visitation vendor, or public mail format was located for the juvenile facility. Because the facility houses minors and juvenile records are confidential, visitation and communication details should be handled directly through authorized family, counsel, the juvenile court, and facility staff. Public pages should not provide a lookup pathway that exposes a juvenile's presence in custody.
| Topic | Official Detail Located | Correct Handling |
|---|---|---|
| Public visitation schedule | Not located | Authorized family or counsel should contact the facility or juvenile court. |
| Public roster | Not available | Juvenile custody is not public adult-roster content. |
| Mail or phone rules | Not publicly published | Confirm through authorized channels only. |
| PREA reporting | Contacts published in county PREA materials | Use Jennifer Robertson, Renee Davis, or the child advocacy contact as appropriate. |
Mail, Phone, and Money for Juvenile Detention
The official sources reviewed do not publish a juvenile commissary program, deposit vendor, phone vendor, video provider, fee table, or public mail-scanning process. Those gaps are important because adult jail money and phone assumptions should not be carried over to a juvenile facility. Authorized family members should ask the facility, juvenile court, or attorney what communication and property rules apply in a specific case.
| Service | Published Public Detail | Use This Route |
|---|---|---|
| Mailing address listed; public inmate format not published | Ask the facility or juvenile court before sending mail. | |
| Phone / Video | No vendor or schedule published | Confirm through authorized family or counsel channels. |
| Money / Commissary | No public vendor or fee table located | Do not assume adult jail deposit rules apply. |
Juvenile Intake and Court Routing
The official facility overview describes the facility's purpose as temporary care for delinquent children, or children alleged delinquent, in secure custody. The listed custody purposes are pending court dispositions, transfer to a long-term facility, or return home. That process is tied to Clarke County Juvenile Courts, not to an adult jail booking roster, adult mugshot gallery, or public recent-arrest list.
For court-record access, Alabama court privacy and confidentiality rules distinguish public case records from confidential information and restricted remote access. Juvenile records can be withheld from public inspection even when adult criminal records from the same courthouse are available through clerk or AlaCourt channels. A requester who is not a parent, guardian, attorney, party, agency worker, or otherwise authorized person should not assume access.
PREA and Safety Policies
The county PREA materials say the Prison Rape Elimination Act applies to public and private institutions housing juvenile and adult offenders. The Clarke County juvenile facility states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse and sexual harassment. The county's PREA investigation protocol says allegations, including third-party and anonymous reports, should be promptly, thoroughly, and objectively investigated.
The protocol says juveniles alleging sexual abuse are not required to submit to a polygraph or truth-telling device as a condition of moving forward with an investigation. It also describes evidence preservation, interviews of alleged victims, suspected perpetrators, and witnesses, referral of substantiated criminal conduct for prosecution, and submission of sexual-assault kit evidence received by the sheriff investigations unit to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science within 14 days.
Protective custody rules in the protocol are specific to juvenile safety. Involuntary segregated housing should not be used unless alternatives are assessed; immediate temporary segregated placement during assessment may not exceed 24 hours; protective custody should preserve access to approved programs, privileges, education, and work opportunities where possible; and retaliation monitoring after an allegation lasts for at least 90 days unless the allegation is unfounded.
About Clarke County Short Term Juvenile Detention Facility
This facility is a narrow, local juvenile detention resource, not a public jail-search product. Its significance in Clarke County is that the county created a nearby short-term secure option after years of transporting juvenile offenders more than 55 miles away. The facility appears in the county detention map because it is physically local, county operated, and directly linked from the sheriff page, but its records must be handled differently from adult jail records.
No official Clarke County sheriff mobile app or app-only juvenile detention roster was located in the official sources reviewed. Adult custody questions should go to the jail and adult records channels; juvenile detention questions should use the juvenile court, authorized counsel, and facility contacts.
Note: Confirm any authorized juvenile visitation, communication, or PREA reporting steps directly with the facility or juvenile court.
Facility Location
The 2024 PREA audit lists the juvenile facility at 149 Clarke Street, Grove Hill, AL 36451. The mailing address is P.O. Box 913, Grove Hill, AL 36451. Call before traveling because the public sources reviewed do not publish visitor entrance, parking, lobby, or schedule details for juvenile detention.