Vermilion County Juvenile Custody Lookup

Vermilion Juvenile Detention Overview

Vermilion County Juvenile Detention Center is listed in official contact sources at 150 E. Sager Street in Danville. The Vermilion County departments page gives the local department contact, and Illinois Probation juvenile detention contacts list Judy J. Hartshorn as director. IDJJ inspection reports describe the center as a secure juvenile detention setting with living units, a control center, a gym, outdoor recreation space, and classroom space.

This facility must be framed with care. It is not the place to search for adult county jail inmates, adult booking photos, or public adult arrest records. Youth custody records are handled under juvenile-court privacy rules and facility procedures. A parent, guardian, attorney, probation officer, or authorized agency contact may have a legitimate reason to call, but the facility page should not imply that a public roster of detained youth exists.

The facility belongs in the Vermilion County detention infrastructure because it is a county youth detention facility. It should stay separate from Vermilion County Jail, which handles adult local custody, and from Danville Correctional Center, which is an IDOC state prison for sentenced adult males.

Vermilion Juvenile Population

IDJJ inspection reports give the clearest public figures for this youth facility. The center is described as a 26-bed secure juvenile detention facility. The 2024 inspection noted 10 youth in custody on 10/29/2024. The 2025 inspection noted 15 youth in custody on 11/05/2025 and found no areas of non-compliance with the requirements reviewed under 20 Ill. Adm. Code 2602 County Juvenile Detention Standards.

Those counts are inspection-date youth counts. They are not adult jail population figures, annual bookings, or average daily population. The adult Vermilion County Jail inspection has separate adult capacity and population numbers, while Danville Correctional Center has separate state prison capacity and population numbers. Keeping those systems apart prevents a youth detention page from becoming an adult inmate-search page by mistake.

Vermilion Juvenile Custody Lookup

There is no researched public adult-style roster for Vermilion County Juvenile Detention Center. That is expected for a youth detention facility. Juvenile custody questions should be routed through the facility, juvenile court, probation, an assigned attorney, or another authorized channel. Public search tools that are useful for adult jail or prison custody do not become youth roster tools simply because the youth facility is in the county.

For an adult after-arrest search, use Vermilion County Jail first. For an adult sentenced to Illinois prison, use the IDOC Individual in Custody Search. For custody notification where it applies, Illinois VINE can be a notification channel. None of those tools should be presented as a public list of detained minors at the juvenile center.

1. Identify whether the question concerns a youth case or an adult arrest.
2. For youth custody, contact the juvenile facility, assigned counsel, probation, or juvenile court through authorized channels.
3. For adult local custody, use Vermilion County Jail and court-record channels instead of the juvenile center.
4. For sentenced adult prison custody, use IDOC and confirm the person's facility in that state system.

Vermilion Juvenile Center Contact

The contact card below uses official county and Illinois juvenile detention contact sources. Because youth custody involves privacy and court limits, callers should be prepared to identify their relationship to the youth or case and should expect staff to limit what can be released to the public.

Illinois Probation's juvenile detention contacts list the director and contact information, while county department listings confirm the address and phone. The facility is in Danville, but it is separate from the sheriff's downtown adult jail and separate from the IDOC prison on East Main Street.

Vermilion Juvenile Visits

IDJJ inspection material provides the researched visitation detail. The 2024 inspection noted an issue because only non-contact visits were offered at the time of inspection, and it also reported that administrators later said contact visits had started. The 2025 inspection says youth had regular access to family visitation and that families were offered a choice of contact or non-contact visits when scheduled.

That is enough to describe the facility's inspection history, but it is not a public visitor handbook. Families should call the facility for current scheduling, approval steps, identification rules, supervision rules, and any court or probation limits. Youth visitation may also depend on case status, behavior level, safety needs, and facility operations.

Juvenile Mail Phone Money

The research did not locate a public mail, phone, commissary, or money-deposit vendor page for Vermilion County Juvenile Detention Center like the adult jail's Securus and Tiger Commissary pages. Youth detention communication rules are normally more controlled than adult jail deposit tools, and this research should not fill the gap with adult jail assumptions.

Families should call the juvenile center or work through the youth's attorney, probation officer, or case contact before sending mail, property, funds, or packages. Ask whether mail must use a specific format, whether any items are barred, how phone calls are arranged, and whether facility incentives or tablets affect communication. Do not send money through the adult jail's Tiger Commissary page unless staff specifically tells you it applies.

Vermilion Juvenile Intake

IDJJ inspection notes describe 24-hour youth intake at the center. The reports say youth receive pat-down and wand searches unless an individualized reason justifies a strip search. Intake screening includes MAYSI for self-harm risk and VSAB for victimization or sexually aggressive behavior. The inspection notes also mention PREA orientation material and assessment steps.

These intake details are not adult booking instructions. They show that the juvenile center handles youth admissions under a different standards framework from the adult jail. A youth's case may involve juvenile court, probation, counsel, family contacts, school coordination, mental-health providers, and detention staff. Public record access and family access must be read through that lens.

MAYSI

A juvenile screening tool used to flag mental-health and self-harm concerns during intake.

VSAB

A screening process tied to victimization and sexually aggressive behavior risk.

PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act framework for prevention, reporting, and safety education.

Vermilion Juvenile Programs

The 2025 IDJJ inspection gives unusually useful program detail. It describes school in the morning and early afternoon, staff-directed programming and recreation after school, music therapy twice weekly through a local school district grant, and daily gym access. It also describes a PBIS behavior program with Zinc, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels, with incentives tied to point levels and behavior progress.

Medical and mental-health details are also facility-specific. The research says medical staff are provided by the Sheriff's Department, with a nurse on-site weekday mornings and doctor or nurse-practitioner availability through the sheriff's department when needed. Mental-health and support services involve Kleppin & Associates, Aunt Martha's Health and Wellness, DHS-funded programming, Rosecrance substance-abuse counseling, and weekly administrative coordination with practitioners.

The education notes include two full-time District 118 educators, a third teacher when needed through part-time retired substitutes, contact with home schools, special education support, and blended direct instruction or Edmentum credit recovery. Those details belong here because they describe youth detention conditions. They should not be copied into adult jail roster or adult mugshot content.

About Vermilion Juvenile Detention

The facility map includes Vermilion County Juvenile Detention Center because a complete county detention overview should account for youth custody as well as adult jail and state prison custody. The 2025 inspection described four primary living units around a control center, a gym, outdoor recreation, and a classroom. It also described staffing at the time of audit, including detention officers, supervisors, a director, and an assistant director.

The same research includes a 2026 local ordinance note tied to tax-levy abatement for jail expansion and juvenile detention center projects. The project scope should not be overstated from that title alone. It is enough to say the county's public materials show continued local-government attention to jail and juvenile detention projects, while operational details still need primary-source confirmation.

For adult custody, use the Vermilion County Jail facility page. For sentenced adult state prison custody in Danville, use the Danville Correctional Center facility page and IDOC rather than juvenile detention contacts.