Jerome Combs Detention Center

Jerome Combs Detention Center basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 815-802-7272

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Jerome Combs Detention Center is a medium-security detention center located at 3050 Justice Way Kankakee, IL which is operated locally by the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Kankakee County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Kankakee Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

Jerome Combs Detention Center – Visitation

The Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Division consists of 125 full-time corrections officers and 14 part-time officers , 3 clerks, 1 full-time physical assistant, 3 full-time registered nurses, 3 part-time registered nurses and 1 part-time dentist. The Corrections Division is mainly responsible for the jail facility and inmate processing.

Construction for our new facility has been completed, and was officially opened on February 11, 2005. The new facility, the Jerome Combs Detention Center, is designed to hold 312 inmates. In 2007, Phase 2 of JCDC was officially opened with the capability of holding 144 additional detainees. Both phases were designed to be direct supervision of detainees. Our old jail facility, the Kankakee County Detention Center, was designed for 106 inmates, but in 1994 was double-bunked which increased the capacity to 220. In 2003 a work release dorm was completed and the capacity increased again to 244. The average daily census as of February 2013 for both the old and new jail was 696 inmates.

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visitation Info

PRISON_NAME – Visitation at PRISON_ADDRESS, PRISON_CITY, PRISON_STATE_ABBR

• Monday 9am – 6pm
• Tuesday 9am – 6pm
• Wednesday 9am – 6pm
• Thursday 9am – 6pm
• Friday 9am – 6pm

All visits are non-contact and conducted through a glass partition. This facility may also have a video visitation option, please call PRISON_PHONE for more information and updates to the current rules and regulations.

Inmates are allowed 2 visitors per day