Locate DuComb Center Records

DuComb Center Work Release

The St. Joseph County Community Corrections About Us page and Work Release page describe DuComb Center as a community-based residential correctional facility. It was established in 1982 and is described by the county as one of Indiana's first work-release facilities. The facility sits near South Bend International Airport and is named for Robert DuComb, a St. Joseph County legislator tied to Indiana community-corrections development.

DuComb Center is different from St. Joseph County Jail. The jail receives arrests from local police agencies, books inmates, posts bond information, and uses the county JailTracker roster. DuComb serves high-to-moderate risk felony clients and community-corrections clients as an alternative to traditional incarceration. A person placed at DuComb may still have a criminal case in MyCase, a court order, a probation or community-corrections condition, or a prior jail booking, but the DuComb facility itself should not be treated as a normal jail roster search.

DuComb Center Capacity

The county and IDOC residential-center listing give a precise bed split for St. Joseph County Community Corrections - DuComb Center. The facility has 88 male beds and 20 female beds. The county also states that Community Corrections supervises more than 600 clients each year, but that annual supervision figure is broader than the number of people sleeping in the residential work-release center on a given night.

Those figures should not be combined with the St. Joseph County Jail inmate population. The jail's county-rated capacity is 829, while DuComb's residential work-release bed count is 108. DuComb clients may be subject to structured schedules, treatment, testing, classes, employment rules, and court or community-corrections supervision. That population is custody-related, but it is not the same as a public jail roster count.

How to Check DuComb Placement

There is no researched public DuComb roster that works like the St. Joseph County JailTracker roster. For DuComb Center lookup questions, start with Community Corrections contact information and the court case record. If the person was just arrested or returned to the county jail, then the St. Joseph County JailTracker roster may show current jail custody. If the person is a sentenced IDOC prisoner, use the state IDOC locator instead.

1. Call St. Joseph County Community Corrections at the DuComb Center main number for facility-specific routing.
2. Search Indiana MyCase for the criminal case, sentencing order, compliance hearing, or revocation matter.
3. Use the county jail roster only if there is reason to believe the person is currently booked into St. Joseph County Jail.
4. Use IDOC locator if the person moved into state custody or a state-run reentry placement.
5. For releasable county records, use the county records request routes rather than assuming a public work-release roster exists.

The practical distinction is simple: DuComb placement is usually tied to court supervision and community-corrections status, while the adult jail roster is tied to current jail booking. A violation, warrant, new arrest, or revocation can move a client back to jail, but the lookup route changes when that happens.

DuComb Center Contact

The county Community Corrections contact page lists the DuComb Center address and direct phone. Staff contacts in the research include the executive director, assistant director, and security director. Because this is a supervised residential program, call before visiting, sending documents, asking about a client's movement, or trying to verify whether a person is housed there.

DuComb Center Visits and Contact

The research did not locate a public DuComb visiting schedule with fixed days and hours. That is a meaningful gap. A work-release center may have rules tied to employment, treatment, movement passes, sanctions, and program phases, and those rules can change by client status. For that reason, DuComb Center visitation and contact should be confirmed by phone before travel.

Do not use the St. Joseph County Jail Internet visitation policy as a substitute for DuComb rules. That policy belongs to adult jail video visitation. DuComb is a separate Community Corrections facility with work-release and treatment functions.

DuComb Programs and Supervision

The county describes DuComb as an alternative to traditional incarceration with individualized treatment plans from sentencing through release. Work-release clients are expected to comply with social, cognitive, and life-skills requirements, classes, chores, drug and alcohol restrictions, and program supervision. Correctional officers supervise clients around the clock. The Work Release page says breath tests occur several times each day and urine tests are frequent.

Community Corrections program material in the research lists Moral Reconation Therapy, Thinking for a Change, Intensive Outpatient Services, Carey Bits and Guides, Addiction Severity Index assessments, mental-health screening, Purposeful Meaningful Life, anger management, job readiness, jail treatment, GED preparation, peer-to-peer programming, substance-abuse and mental-health partnerships, Vivitrol, Suboxone for qualified clients, Narcan-trained staff, counseling, Day Reporting, Community Transition Program, Community Service, and Pretrial Supervision with electronic monitoring.

Work release

A structured residential placement that may allow approved work or program movement while the person remains under correctional supervision.

Community corrections

A local correctional program that can supervise eligible people outside a regular jail bed under court and program rules.

Revocation

A court or program action that can remove community placement after alleged violations and may return a person to jail or prison.

DuComb Mail Money and Records

The research did not locate a public DuComb commissary, phone-fee, or personal-mail table. Do not borrow St. Joseph County Jail commissary rules for DuComb. The adult jail kiosk, money-order, and bond details belong to St. Joseph County Jail, while IDOC mail and money rules belong to state facilities such as South Bend Community Re-entry Center. DuComb questions should be routed to Community Corrections unless a court order or public record supplies the answer.

Indiana public-record law may allow access to existing releasable records, but supervision files, treatment records, confidential personal information, investigatory material, and court-protected records may be withheld or redacted. A public request should identify the record sought rather than asking the county to create a new DuComb client list.

DuComb and Jail Transfers

St. Joseph County has several custody-related paths that can overlap. A person may be arrested and booked into St. Joseph County Jail, released on bond, sentenced to community corrections, placed at DuComb, sanctioned for a violation, or later sent to IDOC. Each stage uses a different source. JailTracker is for current jail custody. MyCase is for court records after a jail arrest. Community Corrections is the direct point for DuComb placement. IDOC covers state custody and state reentry placement.

That is why DuComb Center should be read as part of the county's sentencing and reentry system, not as a simple booking database. For current adult jail booking fields, use the St. Joseph County jail inmate records route. For a state reentry resident, use the South Bend Community Re-entry Center page and IDOC locator. For DuComb, call Community Corrections and check the court record for the legal status behind the placement.