Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center Overview
Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center is operated by the Linn County Juvenile Department in partnership with Benton County. The official county page says the center opened December 15, 1997, and is located at one end of the larger Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility campus on Lochner Road SE in Albany. That campus relationship can be confusing because Oak Creek is an Oregon Youth Authority facility, while Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center is county funded and operated separately through the juvenile department partnership.
The facility is secure juvenile detention, not adult jail custody. Youth may come to detention after placement by law enforcement officers under statutory requirements, placement by a court after a hearing, or placement by a probation officer for a probation violation. Probation officers also supervise youth released on conditional release agreements and can return a youth to detention for violations. Those pathways differ from adult booking into Linn County Jail, where adults appear on the sheriff's Current Adults in Custody roster.
Readers looking for adult pretrial or sentenced county custody should use Linn County Jail instead. A youth detention question should begin with the detention phone line, the juvenile department office, counsel, or the responsible court or probation officer, depending on the family's relationship to the case.
Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center Capacity and Population
The official county facility detail identifies Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center as a 20-bed juvenile detention center. Benton County contracted for four beds in fiscal year 2023-24. Those are youth detention numbers, not adult inmate-population figures and not part of the sheriff's adult jail capacity. They should also not be merged with the separate Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility capacity, even though the center sits at the same Lochner Road campus.
The research does not provide a current daily population count, youth demographic breakdown, average length of stay, or annual detention admissions for this center. Because those figures are not sourced in the available materials, they are not estimated here. The useful local facts are the bed count, the county partnership, the placement routes, and the distinction from adult jail custody.
How to Check Custody at Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
No public adult-style roster was documented for Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center. That absence is important. A person cannot use the sheriff's Current Adults in Custody page to search youth held in this center, and the youth facility should not be used to search adult jail inmates. Juvenile custody information is more restricted than adult jail roster information, and access usually depends on the requester's role, the court case, family status, or agency authority.
- Confirm that the custody question involves a juvenile, not an adult held at Linn County Jail.
- Call the detention center at 541-791-9397 for facility-directed questions.
- For case or probation questions, contact the Linn County Juvenile Department or the assigned probation officer if known.
- Use the responsible court or legal counsel for hearing status, release conditions, and case restrictions.
- If the person is an adult, return to the Linn County Jail roster, ODOC, VISOR, BOP, ICE, or court records instead.
This facility's access pattern is therefore a contact-and-case route, not a public search-box route. The adult roster may publish name, ID, age, date lodged, charges, bail/security fields, and status for adults in county jail. Juvenile detention materials in the research do not provide a public youth search field table, public mugshot gallery, or public list of currently detained youth.
Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center Address and Contact
The detention facility address is on the Lochner Road campus. The juvenile department office has a separate administrative address in Albany for department business. Use the detention line for detention questions and the juvenile department office for juvenile department administration, probation, and records direction when appropriate.
Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
4400 Lochner Road SE
Albany, OR 97322
541-791-9397
Fax: 541-791-9485
Linn County Juvenile Department
104 4th Avenue SW, Room 200
PO Box 100, Albany, OR 97321
541-967-3853
Office hours: 8:30 AM-5 PM, closed noon-1 PM
Because the center deals with juveniles, callers should expect staff to limit details unless the caller is authorized to receive them. If a youth has counsel, a probation officer, or an active court case, those channels may be more appropriate for release conditions, hearing dates, or case-specific decisions.
Visiting Someone at Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
The official juvenile detention page says parents and guardians may visit within the first 24 hours after arrival. Visits are by appointment only and must be scheduled ahead. That is a much narrower, family-centered visitation model than the adult jail's published housing-block schedule. A family should not rely on adult jail visiting times, adult AIC visitor lists, or the adult jail appointment number for this facility.
| Visitor / Situation | Published access rule | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Parent or guardian | May visit within first 24 hours after arrival | Appointment only |
| Later family visits | Schedule ahead with detention staff | Appointment only |
| Court or probation limits | Follow any court-ordered or case-specific restriction | Restricted access |
| Adult jail visitors | Adult jail block schedule does not apply | Not applicable |
Call the detention center before traveling to confirm appointment approval, arrival instructions, identification expectations, and whether a court order or probation condition limits contact. The research does not provide a published weekly time grid for this facility, so no schedule is invented.
Mail, Phone, and Money at Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
Mail is allowed unless court-ordered restrictions apply. The official county detail gives a specific mailing format: Juvenile's Name, c/o Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center, 4400 Lochner Rd SE, Albany, OR 97322. Youth receive four stamps per week for personal mail and unlimited postage for communications to the Governor, Attorney General, and attorney. Mail is searched for contraband.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Juvenile's Name, c/o Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center, 4400 Lochner Rd SE, Albany, OR 97322 |
| Personal postage | Four stamps per week for personal mail |
| Legal / official postage | Unlimited postage for communications to the Governor, Attorney General, and attorney |
| Packages and gifts | Stickers, drugs, food, inappropriate pictures, packages, and gifts are not allowed |
The research does not document an adult-style commissary vendor, public deposit portal, bail account, phone vendor, video vendor, or mail-scanning vendor for this youth detention center. Do not transfer the Linn County Jail CorrectPay, ViaPath, bail, or scanning-mail rules to juvenile detention unless the juvenile department confirms those rules for the specific youth facility.
Admission and Intake at Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
Youth can enter detention through law enforcement placement under statutory requirements, court placement after a hearing, or probation officer placement for a probation violation. The official page also says probation officers supervise youth released on conditional release agreements and can return them to detention for violations. That process is different from adult arrest booking at Linn County Jail, where an arresting agency lodges an adult and the public roster may later show date lodged, charge, bail, and status fields.
Published youth program and intake-related materials include organized activity, a medical clinic consent process, an orientation packet, cognitive restructuring, and education or social-skill focus. Tours for youth age 12 and older may be approved. These details show a juvenile justice purpose that includes public safety, accountability, education, and opportunities for change rather than a public adult booking profile.
About Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center
The center's local importance comes from its county-state campus relationship. It is physically located at one end of the Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility campus, but it is county funded and run as a Linn County Juvenile Department partnership with Benton County. Oak Creek is operated by Oregon Youth Authority and serves youth committed to OYA legal or physical custody. Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center handles secure juvenile detention placements through law enforcement, court, and probation channels.
The facility should be discussed carefully in adult inmate-search content. It belongs in the detention-facility map because it is a secure custody facility in Linn County, but it is not a place to search for adults arrested in Albany, Lebanon, Sweet Home, or elsewhere in Linn County. Adult jail roster, bail, booking-photo, commissary, and court-charge instructions belong to the sheriff jail and court systems, not this juvenile facility.
Note: Call ahead before any visit or mail-sensitive action because juvenile custody access can depend on family status, court orders, and probation rules.