Rockingham Youth Facility Overview
The NCDAC Rockingham Youth Development Center project page identifies the facility as a youth development center in Reidsville, Rockingham County. It was constructed for the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The research did not locate an exact public street address on the NCDAC project page. For that reason, the state agency's Raleigh public contact information is the verified contact point in the source material.
This facility should not be described as a county jail, adult prison, sheriff-operated detention center, or public inmate roster. NCDAC describes it as a 42,000-square-foot facility built to house juvenile offenders while emphasizing rehabilitation, education, and vocational training. The custody population is juvenile, and public access to identity, placement, case history, visitation approval, and program information is much more restricted than the adult jail information used for the Rockingham County Detention Center.
Rockingham Youth Records Limits
No public youth-development-center roster, juvenile locator, or public inmate-profile database was located for Rockingham Youth Development Center. That is expected for a juvenile secure-custody setting. Adult jail pages often discuss booking records, mugshots, bond, and inmate money, but those subjects do not transfer cleanly to a youth development center. A youth's placement and case status may involve juvenile court, guardians, attorneys, probation or juvenile justice staff, and facility staff who follow state confidentiality rules.
Family members, legal guardians, attorneys, and authorized case participants should use official NCDAC or Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention channels for facility-specific questions. Do not call the Rockingham County Detention Center to look up a youth in this state facility unless a court has transferred the person into adult local custody and adult jail staff have a reason to hold them. Adult county jail lookup channels are not a substitute for juvenile justice contacts.
Important: Do not publish, share, or rely on unofficial juvenile custody lists. Confirm any youth placement question with authorized juvenile justice or legal channels.
NCDAC Youth Facility Contacts
The official project source gives NCDAC's main public contact block rather than a facility street-address block. Use it as the verified state contact path for general agency routing, public information, and direction to the proper juvenile justice office. Specific youth placement, visitation, school, treatment, release, or legal questions may require proof of authority or direct case contacts.
North Carolina Department of Adult Correction
214 West Jones St.
Raleigh, NC 27603
919-733-2126
Public state agency contact for NCDAC routing.
NCDAC Mailing Address
5201 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-5201
Division: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Use official juvenile justice instructions for case-specific matters.
| Question | Appropriate Route | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Is a youth housed there? | Authorized juvenile justice or legal contact | No public juvenile roster was located. |
| Can family visit? | Facility or case-approved juvenile justice channel | Approval rules are not posted in the research source. |
| Is this an adult inmate search? | No | The facility is juvenile secure custody. |
| Is an adult in county jail? | Rockingham County Detention Center | Adult local custody uses the sheriff's jail channels. |
Rockingham Youth Custody Purpose
NCDAC states that Rockingham Youth Development Center was constructed to house juvenile offenders with a focus on rehabilitation through educational and vocational training services. That wording is central. A youth development center is not meant to be read like a jail booking page. The public-facing facts are the facility purpose, project scale, construction dates, agency operator, and broad rehabilitative mission.
The distinction also affects search language. The adult county jail holds people in pending-trial status and people serving short misdemeanor sentences. A youth development center serves juveniles in a state juvenile justice setting, where identity and case details are not posted as public adult jail entries. If a young person has been transferred to adult court and adult detention by court order, the inquiry shifts to the adult system, but that transfer should not be assumed.
- Youth development center
- A state juvenile secure-custody setting focused on rehabilitation, education, supervision, and vocational training.
- Juvenile confidentiality
- Limits on public access to youth identity, custody, court, treatment, and program information.
- Adult county jail
- The sheriff-operated local facility for adult arrests and short county jail sentences.
- NCDAC
- North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, the state agency named in the project source.
Rockingham Youth Construction History
The NCDAC project page says construction began in January 2021 and was completed in February 2024. NCDAC and NCDPS Central Engineering managed the project, and the Construction Apprenticeship Program completed it with a mix of CAP mentors and incarcerated workers. The page states that the project averaged 15 CAP mentors and 85 incarcerated offenders over the project, used a typical four-day, ten-hour work schedule, and totaled 576,000 man hours across roughly three years.
The project also produced apprenticeship outcomes. NCDAC reports that 15 incarcerated individuals completed Journeyman Apprenticeships under CAP mentors. Those details belong on this facility page because they are the strongest public facts specific to Rockingham Youth Development Center. They also show why the facility appears in the research map even though it is not an adult inmate-search facility.
| Project Fact | Figure | NCDAC Context |
|---|---|---|
| Facility size | 42,000 square feet | Youth development center in Reidsville |
| Construction start | January 2021 | Project began under NCDAC/NCDPS Central Engineering |
| Completion | February 2024 | Project completed for juvenile justice use |
| Man hours | 576,000 | Total labor reported by NCDAC |
| Apprenticeships | 15 | Journeyman Apprenticeships completed |
The state source page is the relevant visual reference for this facility. The Rockingham Youth Development Center CAP project page presents the public project description, construction timeline, and cost comparison.
Rockingham Youth Project Costs
NCDAC published unusually detailed project economics for Rockingham Youth Development Center. Legislative capital funding provided $22,386,100. The first construction-manager-at-risk estimate was $27,257,802, and the second estimate was $30,093,784. Central Engineering and CAP estimated the project at $18,747,492. NCDAC reported savings of $3,638,608 below the legislative fund allocation and $8,510,310 below the lowest construction-manager-at-risk estimate.
Those figures describe construction economics, not custody capacity, operating cost, or population count. The research did not locate a public capacity figure, daily population count, roster count, or youth demographic table for the facility. The final public message should stay with the sourced project figures and avoid converting them into claims about the number of juveniles housed there.
| Financial Item | Amount | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Legislative capital funding | $22,386,100 | Funding allocation cited by NCDAC |
| First CM-at-risk estimate | $27,257,802 | Outside estimate comparison |
| Second CM-at-risk estimate | $30,093,784 | Higher estimate comparison |
| CAP estimate | $18,747,492 | Central Engineering and CAP estimate |
| Savings below fund allocation | $3,638,608 | NCDAC project savings statement |
| Savings below lowest CM-at-risk estimate | $8,510,310 | NCDAC comparison to contractor estimate |
Rockingham Youth Family Inquiry
There is no public facility roster to search by name. A parent, guardian, attorney, or authorized representative should use the person's existing juvenile justice contact, court contact, attorney, or NCDAC/Juvenile Justice channel. Be ready to establish the authority to receive information. Staff may not be able to discuss a youth's placement, program participation, health, school status, or release planning with an unauthorized caller.
- Start with the youth's assigned attorney, juvenile court contact, case worker, or official juvenile justice contact when known.
- Use NCDAC's main contact, 919-733-2126, for state agency routing if no direct case contact is available.
- Ask for facility-specific visitation, mail, and family-contact rules through authorized channels rather than assuming county jail rules apply.
- Use the Rockingham County Detention Center only for adult local custody questions or a confirmed adult-court transfer.
Adult lookup tools can create false matches. NCDAC's adult Offender Public Information Search is for state offenders and community supervision records, not a juvenile development center roster. The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office jail phone line under Sheriff Samuel Scott Page is for adult local detention, not routine juvenile placement verification.
Rockingham Youth Visitation Mail
The research source did not locate a public Rockingham Youth Development Center visitation schedule, mail format, phone vendor, money-deposit vendor, approved-call list, or family handbook. That absence should be handled plainly. Do not import HomeWAV, lobby kiosk, scanned-mail, or money-order rules from the adult Rockingham County Detention Center. Those rules belong to the sheriff-operated adult jail and may not apply to a state juvenile facility.
Facility-specific rules for a youth development center are normally tied to the youth's case status, parent or guardian authority, legal representation, and internal juvenile justice procedures. A family member should ask the official juvenile justice contact about approved visitors, identification, call rules, mail screening, school or program communication, and what information may be shared. Attorneys should use legal channels and facility instructions for client contact.
| Topic | Public Source Status | Practical Handling |
|---|---|---|
| Visiting hours | Not located in project source | Ask authorized juvenile justice contact. |
| Mail address | Exact facility mail format not located | Use official facility instructions before sending mail. |
| Phone calls | Vendor not located | Ask case or facility contact. |
| Money or commissary | No public vendor located | Do not use adult jail deposit rules. |
Youth Facility vs Adult Custody
Rockingham County has one adult local detention facility in the research map: Rockingham County Detention Center. That jail holds people awaiting trial, people serving short misdemeanor sentences, and local custody cases tied to court, medical, treatment, or transfer needs. It is run by the sheriff and uses the county's detention phone, Records Division, PIO, HomeWAV visitation, lobby kiosk, and scanned-mail rules.
Rockingham Youth Development Center has a different function, operator, and public-record boundary. It is a state juvenile justice facility. The public should not expect adult jail mugshots, bond information, booking reports, or a name-search roster. If an adult or transferred youth is in the sheriff's jail, use the Rockingham County Detention Center channels. If a person has been sentenced to adult state prison, use NCDAC's adult offender search. If the person is in federal or immigration custody, use BOP or ICE.
Note: The shared Rockingham name can lead to errors with Rockingham County, Virginia, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and the city of Rockingham in Richmond County, North Carolina.
Rockingham Youth Record Boundaries
North Carolina public-record access is broad for many adult government records, but juvenile custody and court information has special limits. The research file does not give a public juvenile case-record workflow for this facility. That means public-facing content should avoid naming sample fields, release details, medical details, school details, incident details, or individual youth records. It is accurate to say that public construction and agency information are available through NCDAC, while individual youth information requires authorized channels.
The NCDAC public-records page is useful for understanding state-agency boundaries, but even that page should not be treated as permission to obtain or post juvenile placement details. For adult county jail booking records, use the sheriff's PIO or Records Division. For adult court records, use the North Carolina Judicial Branch. For juvenile secure custody, use the official juvenile justice and legal contacts tied to the case.
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