Locate Oak Creek Youth Custody

Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility Overview

Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility is operated by the Oregon Youth Authority, often called OYA. The official OYA page places the facility at 4400 Lochner Road SE in Albany and identifies it as a secure youth correctional facility. The research describes Oak Creek as housing female youth committed to OYA legal or physical custody. OYA close custody is described in the research as housing, treatment, education, and vocational services for youth in OYA custody.

Oak Creek should not be described as a county jail, an adult state prison, or an adult inmate-search location. Adults arrested in Linn County are searched through the Linn County Jail Current Adults in Custody roster if they are in local adult jail custody. Adults sentenced to prison for more than 12 months are searched through Oregon Department of Corrections statewide systems. Oak Creek is a separate youth correctional facility on the Lochner Road campus.

The Oregon Youth Authority Oak Creek page identifies the facility, its address, capacity, contact numbers, and leadership contacts.

That official page is the best source for facility-level OYA contact information because no adult-style public roster was located for Oak Creek.

Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility Capacity and Population

The facility map and OYA page state that Oak Creek houses up to 42 youth. The research also notes an official Oregon.gov PREA-related snippet describing Oak Creek as a secure facility for female residents in Albany, with a 2024 average daily population of 43 in a 42-bed facility. Because that figure comes from a PREA-related snippet rather than the main facility page, it should be presented carefully as an official reporting snippet, not as a live daily count.

Those numbers are youth correctional figures and should not be merged into the adult Linn County Jail statistics. The adult jail's rated capacity, bookings, and average daily population are reported by the sheriff for the Jackson Street jail. Oak Creek capacity is reported through Oregon Youth Authority sources for youth custody.

How to Check Custody at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility

No public adult-style roster was documented for Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. Families and authorized contacts should use OYA facility contacts rather than the Linn County adult jail roster. The OYA page says living units have living-unit managers and case coordinators, and email is best for questions about a youth. That is a relationship-based access route, not a public roster search.

1. Confirm the person is a youth in OYA custody, not an adult in Linn County Jail or ODOC prison.
2. Call Oak Creek at 541-791-5900 during business hours for facility direction.
3. Use the youth's living-unit manager or case coordinator when known.
4. Ask about visiting approval, scheduling, mail, property, and family resources through OYA channels.
5. For adult custody, use Linn County Jail, ODOC Offender Search, VISOR, BOP, ICE, or court records instead.

Oregon Offender Search belongs to the adult Department of Corrections system, not OYA youth custody. VISOR may help with broader Oregon custody and supervision notification questions, but Oak Creek-specific family and youth questions should be handled through OYA and the assigned youth contacts.

Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility Address and Contact

Oak Creek's main contact information is published by Oregon Youth Authority. The research lists general phone and fax, business hours, an emergency number for periods when regular phones are down, and leadership contacts. Use the facility's current OYA page before relying on a saved phone list, because youth facility staff assignments can change.

The research listed Superintendent Kristine Meany with a phone number and email, and Program Director Brenda Frontino with a phone number. Because staff roles can change, the safest practice is to verify current leadership and living-unit contacts on the official OYA Oak Creek page.

Visiting Someone at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility

Oak Creek visiting is scheduled through OYA, not through the adult jail visiting line. Visits must be scheduled no more than 10 days before the visit by calling 541-791-5900 during business hours. Youth are typically limited to two visiting sessions per week. Visitors should confirm approval, session availability, identification requirements, and any youth-specific restriction before traveling to the Lochner Road campus.

The official visiting rules include clothing restrictions. Prohibited examples include torn clothing in inappropriate places, short shorts, short skirts or dresses, spaghetti straps, tank tops, low-cut clothing, sheer or mesh fabric, fanny packs, money belts, belts with compartments, and clothing with messages promoting drugs, alcohol, violence, pornography, nudity, gangs, prejudice, or demeaning content. These rules are youth-facility rules and should not be replaced with adult jail visitor rules.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility

The research points readers to OYA family resources, facility contacts, living units, property and package resources, and money-account information rather than an adult jail commissary table. No CorrectPay adult jail commissary account, Linn County cashier's-check bail rule, ViaPath adult jail rate table, or Linn County adult mail-scanning rule should be copied into Oak Creek content unless OYA confirms it for Oak Creek.

If a family member is unsure whether a youth is in Oak Creek, the Jackie Winters Transition Program, the county juvenile detention center, or another OYA placement, the most practical first step is to call the OYA facility and ask which authorized contact route applies. Public adult jail systems will not resolve that youth placement question.

Reception and Case Coordination at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility

Oak Creek is not an arrest-booking facility in the adult jail sense. Youth in Oak Creek are in OYA legal or physical custody, and the facility provides secure custody, treatment, education, vocational services, living-unit structure, and case coordination. That means intake and daily status questions are tied to OYA commitment, placement, case planning, and youth services rather than a public jail booking record.

A Linn County youth could have different custody paths depending on the case stage. The county juvenile detention center handles secure juvenile detention placements through law enforcement, court, or probation routes. Oak Creek handles OYA youth correctional custody. Jackie Winters is a transition program adjacent to Oak Creek for youth preparing to return to the community. Keeping those three roles separate prevents adult jail terms such as bail, AIC profile, mugshot, or adult jail roster from being applied to youth custody.

About Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility

Oak Creek is one of the most important non-adult facilities in Linn County's custody map. It shares the broader Lochner Road campus area with Linn-Benton Juvenile Detention Center and the Jackie Winters Transition Program, but each facility has a different operator and purpose. Oak Creek is the OYA secure youth correctional facility. The juvenile detention center is a Linn County Juvenile Department partnership with Benton County. Jackie Winters is an OYA transition program next to Oak Creek.

The facility is relevant to county custody research because families may search for someone in Albany and encounter multiple Lochner Road names. The key distinction is that adult Linn County arrests and short local sentences point to Linn County Jail on Jackson Street, while Oak Creek points to OYA youth custody. Adult state prison lookup is statewide through ODOC, and no adult ODOC prison is located in Linn County.