Lewis County Juvenile Detention Youth Lookup

Lewis County Juvenile Detention Overview

Lewis County Juvenile Detention is operated through Lewis County Juvenile Court, a division of Lewis County Superior Court. The facility is a county juvenile detention center in Chehalis, Washington, and serves youth whose custody is handled through local juvenile court rather than the adult Lewis County Jail. The official county detention page identifies the detention center as a 24-hour facility and lists a dedicated detention phone line, a fax number, a detention manager, and detention supervisors.

The most important distinction is jurisdiction. The adult Lewis County Jail roster is for adult jail custody, bookings, release status, charge rows, bond entries, and VINELink registration links. It is not the public lookup tool for youth at Lewis County Juvenile Detention. Green Hill School is also different. Green Hill School is a state Juvenile Rehabilitation secure facility operated by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families at a separate address. Lewis County Juvenile Detention is the county juvenile detention facility connected to Juvenile Court and Superior Court.

The official Lewis County Juvenile Detention contact page identifies the local detention operation and its management contacts. The matching site screenshot below comes from that county source and is included because it directly matches this facility page.

Use that county page for official detention contact information, then use the juvenile FAQ and detention staff for rules that depend on a youth's status, approved visitors, and court-related limits.

How to Look Up a Youth at Lewis County Juvenile Detention

A Lewis County Juvenile Detention lookup is not the same as searching the adult jail roster at jail.lewiscountywa.gov. Juvenile custody information can be restricted by Washington juvenile confidentiality rules, court orders, probation decisions, and detention-center policy. The researched county sources do not identify a public juvenile detention roster. For that reason, the practical access path is to use the Juvenile Court and detention contacts, and to be ready to explain your relationship to the youth and the reason you are requesting information.

1. Confirm that the person is a youth in county juvenile detention, not an adult at Lewis County Jail and not a state Juvenile Rehabilitation resident at Green Hill School.
2. Call Lewis County Juvenile Detention at (360) 740-2632 for custody, visiting, or facility-rule questions that staff are allowed to answer.
3. If the question involves court status, case access, probation approval, or authorization for a visitor, use Lewis County Juvenile Court and Superior Court channels rather than the adult jail roster.
4. If the person is at Green Hill School, use DCYF Green Hill School contacts instead of Juvenile Court detention contacts or the adult jail roster.

This means a parent or legal guardian may have a different access path from a friend, sibling, non-guardian relative, counselor, minister, police officer, or attorney. The juvenile FAQ says youth visitors must be approved by Probation staff, and it also places limits on people under 18, siblings, non-guardians, and people not approved by Probation unless an Administrator or designee authorizes an exception. Those access rules explain why a simple public roster would not answer many juvenile detention questions.

Lewis County Juvenile Detention Address and Contact

Lewis County publishes the detention center as a 24-hour facility at the Juvenile Court location in Chehalis. The detention page lists Vanessa Conwell as Detention Manager, with a direct manager phone number and email. It also lists Lowell Stewart, Kellie Wright, Randi Folsom, and Aaron Wires as supervisors, generally using the detention center phone line. Use the main detention number for time-sensitive facility questions before traveling, mailing, or trying to visit.

Visiting Someone at Lewis County Juvenile Detention

The juvenile FAQ gives a narrow visitor list and a specific schedule. Visits are available Friday through Sunday in two daily blocks, and visitors are told to arrive 15 minutes early. Visits last 30 minutes. Identification is required, and the visitor must be permitted under juvenile detention rules. Approved parents and legal guardians are the core family visitors. Counselors, ministers, police officers, and legal counsel may visit as needed under the rules that apply to their role.

Under-18 visitors, siblings, non-legal guardians, and people who have not been approved by Probation are not automatically allowed. The county FAQ says an Administrator or designee may authorize an exception. Because these limits are youth-specific and status-specific, call the detention center before assuming a visit will be approved. Do not rely on the adult jail's HomeWAV visitation page for this facility; that page applies to Lewis County Jail adult custody, not juvenile detention.

Mail, Phone, and Property at Lewis County Juvenile Detention

Mail for youth at Lewis County Juvenile Detention must go through the U.S. Postal Service. The juvenile FAQ says youth may write two letters per week unless parents provide additional stamps. That limit is important because it describes the youth's outgoing mail access, not an adult jail messaging account. The research did not locate a juvenile detention commissary vendor, public deposit table, or paid video/phone vendor for this facility. Do not apply the adult jail's JailATM, HomeWAV, or SmartJailMail rules to juvenile detention unless detention staff specifically direct you to do so.

Parents and legal guardians may bring only certain approved items. The FAQ identifies paperback age-appropriate books subject to staff approval, sealed new chap stick, and appropriate 4x6 photos subject to staff approval. Hardback books, magazines, newspapers, and other personal items are not allowed. Appropriate photos may be sent, but the FAQ limits photos to no larger than 4x6 and says only two may be in the room at one time. Because staff approval controls these items, call first if an item is not clearly allowed.

Admission and Court Status at Lewis County Juvenile Detention

Admission to Lewis County Juvenile Detention is part of the juvenile-court process, not an adult jail booking displayed on the county jail roster. Youth custody may involve Juvenile Court, probation staff, detention staff, legal counsel, and family or guardian contacts. The public adult roster can show adult bookings, court abbreviations, bond rows, and VINELink registration links, but it should not be treated as a juvenile detention roster.

Juvenile case information also has a different public-record boundary. Research for Lewis County court records notes that some juvenile offender files may be open unless sealed, while juvenile dependency matters and other protected case types are confidential. The Sheriff's records page also cites juvenile confidentiality as a reason information may be withheld or redacted. If the question is about court documents rather than immediate detention status, the court of record is the proper place to confirm what can be released.

Capacity and Population Notes

No current official capacity number for Lewis County Juvenile Detention was located in the research file. The facility map describes it as a 24-hour detention center, and the official detention page provides management and contact information, but it does not supply a current rated-bed number in the captured research. For that reason, this page does not publish a capacity figure for the juvenile detention center.

This should not be confused with the adult jail's population statistics or Green Hill School's state Juvenile Rehabilitation capacity. Lewis County Jail has a separate official annual report with adult jail capacity and average daily population figures. Green Hill School has a separate DCYF operational-capacity figure and 2024 overcrowding history. Those numbers belong to different facilities with different operators, records systems, and custody populations.

About Lewis County Juvenile Detention

Lewis County Juvenile Detention sits near Green Hill School, but the county FAQ explains that the two facilities are separate. The county juvenile detention building is connected to Lewis County Juvenile Court and Superior Court. Green Hill School is a state Juvenile Rehabilitation institution operated by DCYF. The distinction matters for lookup, visitation, mail, and legal status. A youth held for county juvenile court should be handled through juvenile detention and court contacts. A young person committed to Green Hill belongs to a state juvenile rehabilitation system with DCYF rules.

The facility-specific rules in the research focus on family access, approved visitors, mail, letters, photos, and staff-controlled property. They do not describe the facility as an adult jail, a state prison, a federal facility, or an ICE detention center. Lewis County does not have an adult WA DOC prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center identified in the official facility research. For adult sentenced state-prison custody, use the Washington State Department of Corrections incarcerated search. For federal or immigration custody, use the appropriate federal locator.