Camden County Juvenile Detention Center Custody Information

Camden County Juvenile Detention Center Overview

Gloucester County's official juvenile-offenders page states that juvenile offenders are no longer housed in Gloucester County and directs visiting and bail questions to Camden County Youth Detention Center or Middlesex County Youth Services. Camden County's official juvenile detention page describes Camden County Juvenile Detention Center as the county's pretrial juvenile detention center on the Lakeland Campus outside Blackwood. It holds boys and girls accused of delinquent behavior while they await Family Court action.

This page uses the facility name Camden County Juvenile Detention Center because that is the common official service label, while Gloucester's page also refers to Camden County Youth Detention Center. Both references point to the juvenile path, not the adult county jail. The facility is a secure pretrial juvenile setting, not a public adult roster portal. The research reviewed did not locate a public capacity number for the center, and no Gloucester-specific juvenile headcount at Camden was published.

How Camden Fits Gloucester County Juvenile Cases

Gloucester County's correctional structure is regional. Adults are admitted to Salem County Jail before any possible transfer, and juveniles are not housed in Gloucester County. For juvenile cases, Gloucester identifies Camden County Youth Detention Center and Middlesex County Youth Services as contacts for visiting and bail information. That makes Camden a relevant facility page for Gloucester families, even though the building is in Camden County.

A juvenile case should be approached differently from an adult jail case. The adult workflow may involve a public inmate lookup, VINE, NJDOC, BOP, ICE, OPRA, and criminal court records. A juvenile workflow is more restricted because juvenile delinquency records and facility details are sensitive. Family members should use official facility contact channels, court notices, assigned counsel, and Family Court directions. Do not assume that a child's name, photo, charges, or detention status will be published in an online roster.

How to Confirm a Juvenile Placement

No official public juvenile inmate roster or public mugshot lookup was documented for Camden County Juvenile Detention Center in the Gloucester research. The safer process is direct confirmation through the facility or the court-related channel available to a parent, guardian, attorney, or authorized party. If a juvenile was taken into custody in Gloucester County, start with the information provided by law enforcement, court paperwork, counsel, or Gloucester County's juvenile-offender routing page.

1. Confirm the juvenile's full legal name, date of birth, arresting or referring agency, and court date if known.
2. Call the Camden facility front desk at the published number and ask what information an authorized caller may receive.
3. Use Family Court or counsel for case status, hearings, detention review, and release conditions.
4. For current visiting procedures, call the Visiting Desk during the scheduling windows rather than relying on adult jail visitation rules.

Camden County Juvenile Detention Center Address and Contact

The research reconciled Gloucester's juvenile routing with Camden County and New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association location data. Camden describes the center as being on the Lakeland Campus outside Blackwood. The address below follows the Camden/NJJDA address because Gloucester's own directory text had a malformed address line. Verify directions before travel, especially for scheduled visits.

Visiting at Camden County Juvenile Detention Center

Camden County's corrections visitation page states juvenile detention visits are by appointment only. Visitors must call the Visiting Desk directly to schedule. Calls are made Friday through Sunday to schedule visits for the following week, and visitors may arrive in person on Fridays to schedule. Visitors must arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled visit. Late visitors are not permitted to visit.

These rules should not be replaced with adult jail schedules from Salem, Essex, or Atlantic. Juvenile facilities control visitor approval, appointment access, identification, and release of information differently than adult facilities.

Bail, Release, and Family Court Questions

Gloucester County says juvenile visiting and bail questions should be directed to Camden County Youth Detention Center or Middlesex County Youth Services. In a juvenile case, "bail" and release questions may involve Family Court orders, detention hearings, supervision conditions, a parent or guardian, and counsel. The facility can explain its own visiting and detention procedures, but court status and legal release decisions should be confirmed through the court or the attorney handling the juvenile matter.

Gloucester also operates a Juvenile Home Electronic Detention Program at 70 Hunter Street in Woodbury. Research describes it as a court-ordered alternative to secure detention, monitored 24 hours a day and seven days a week with an ankle device. When ordered by a Superior Court judge, it can allow a juvenile to continue school, therapy, and other approved parts of daily life. That local program is separate from physical placement at Camden.

Mail, Phone, and Money Questions

The Gloucester research did not document a public Camden juvenile mail format, commissary vendor, phone vendor, or money-deposit table. Because this is a juvenile facility, the correct approach is to ask the facility directly what an authorized parent, guardian, or attorney may send or arrange. Do not borrow adult rules from Camden County adult corrections, Salem County, Essex County, Atlantic County, NJDOC, or a commercial roster site. Those rules may be wrong for a youth detention setting.

Juvenile Records and Public Access Limits

New Jersey OPRA, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq., generally favors public access to government records, but juvenile records and correctional facility records have important exceptions. N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 excludes certain criminal investigatory records, and N.J.A.C. 10A:31-6.10 identifies confidential correctional records such as specified security, visit, phone, logbook, and surveillance materials. Juvenile confidentiality adds another reason not to promise public name, photo, or case access.

For Gloucester County agency records, use Gloucester County's OPRA channel if the record is held by the county and is not exempt. For court records, use New Jersey Courts and the Family Court process that applies to the case. For facility records, ask Camden what can be released and to whom. A parent, guardian, attorney, or authorized agency may have a different path than the general public.

About Camden County Juvenile Detention Center

Camden County describes the center's mission as providing a safe and secure environment for residents and staff where intervention, education, and mentoring reduce resident recidivism. That mission language is different from adult jail intake language. The center is meant for boys and girls accused of delinquent behavior while they await Family Court action, with education and social-services contacts published alongside the front desk.

For Gloucester County readers, the key distinction is that Camden is a juvenile path. It should not be used to search for adults, sentenced state prisoners, federal prisoners, or immigration detainees. Adults follow Salem, Atlantic, Essex, NJDOC, BOP, ICE, or court channels depending on custody stage. Juveniles follow the facility, Family Court, counsel, and authorized family channels.