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City Justice Center Overview

The official City Justice Center page identifies CJC as the city-operated local jail at 200 South Tucker Boulevard. It is run by the City of St. Louis Department of Public Safety, Division of Corrections. That operator detail matters. St. Louis City jail custody is not run by a county sheriff's office, and the online jail search is not a sheriff booking roster. The Division of Corrections says it houses citizens arrested by police and awaiting an opportunity to answer charges in court.

The CJC building opened in 2002, is six stories, and is described by the city as a 24-hour facility. Its service menu connects jail users to inmate lookup, bond, money deposits, visitation, property, medical records, volunteer programs, PREA information, and inmate population data. The facility can hold people at several points in a case: after police processing, before a first appearance, while bond or release conditions are pending, or after a local sentence that remains in city custody.

The city page below is the source for the CJC address, capacity, contact block, and facility services.

The facility menu is useful because it separates inmate lookup, money, visiting, bond, and property into different city service pages.

City Justice Center Population

The City Justice Center page gives CJC a rated capacity of 860 inmates. The official inmate population dashboard reported a 2026 average daily population of 763 when the research page was generated on June 19, 2026. That puts the 2026 average at about 89 percent of rated capacity before applying the dashboard caveat. The dashboard warns that counts may be up to 5 percent higher because the system counts everyone in CJC, including inmates and detainees, and includes people marked as temporarily out of facility when a bed is still reserved.

Those figures should not be read as a full conditions report. The dashboard gives population counts and filters for race, sex, facility, marital status, employment status, top offense class, and age group. It does not, by itself, prove whether a housing area is crowded, staffed, or available for a certain classification. City news and oversight items discuss conditions and reforms separately.

City Justice Center Lookup

Current local custody is searched through the city page titled Locate a St. Louis City Inmate, which links to the STL Inmate Locator. The city says exact first and last name are needed, and the search returns exact matches rather than similar names. If a person was just arrested, a missing result does not always mean release. The city lists several reasons a search can fail, including police custody on the first floor, a police substation hold while awaiting transport, release, or a name that does not match arrest paperwork.

1. Start at the city inmate-locator page so the search path stays tied to the official St. Louis City corrections source.
2. Open the linked STL Inmate Locator and enter the exact first name and exact last name used in the arrest record.
3. Review the result table for inmate name, birth year, race, sex, and facility.
4. Open the inmate profile when a linked result is available, then check charges, court date, release time, and status fields.
5. If no CJC result appears but custody is still likely, call SLMPD Prisoner Processing at 314-241-8339.

For case outcomes, the locator itself points users away from the roster and toward Missouri Case.net or St. Louis Municipal Court records. A booking or charge entry is not a conviction. When a St. Louis City case becomes a state DOC sentence, search shifts to the Missouri Department of Corrections rather than the CJC jail roster. Current and released custody search paths are covered in more detail on Jail Inmate Records.

City Justice Center Contact

CJC is open around the clock, but not every unit answers the same question. The main number reaches the facility, while the contact list gives extensions for admissions, visiting, property, bonds, inmate funds, inmate phones, programs, caseworkers, and complaints. For a name that has not reached the locator, the first split is between police custody and CJC intake. SLMPD Prisoner Processing handles the police-processing fallback; CJC Admissions handles inmate intake questions after transfer to the jail.

City Justice Center Visits

CJC social visits require advance approval. During orientation, the inmate receives five Visitor Request Forms and mails them to selected visitors. The visitor completes the form and sends it back to City Justice Center at 200 South Tucker Boulevard. CJC performs a criminal history record check. Approval can be blocked by an active warrant, release from a penal institution within the past 180 days, or probation or parole status without written officer approval. Caseworkers maintain the forms, and callers can ask CJC to transfer them to the correct caseworker by inmate name.

The official CJC visitation page is the source for the approval rules, social visit schedule, dress code, and lobby restrictions shown below.

Visitors should arrive early, bring valid identification, and avoid clothing or items that the jail rules do not permit in the visiting area.

Dress and conduct rules are strict. The research notes no tank tops, hoodies, or jackets in visiting areas; dresses must be at or below the knees; only religious headgear is allowed; shoes must be closed toe; and large bags or items that do not fit a small locker are barred. Visitors may be searched. A visit can be denied for a dress-code issue, intoxication, disruption, active warrant, or security breach. Minors must be with an adult.

City Justice Center Money

Money for a CJC inmate account requires the inmate master number, often called the IMN. If the IMN is unknown, the city money page says to call (314) 621-5848, press 1, and provide the inmate's name. CJC accepts electronic deposit methods through CSG Pay, phone deposit, and lobby kiosks. The city page also says the Division does not accept cash, personal checks, cashier checks, or money orders for inmate accounts, so the electronic options and lobby kiosks are the practical channels to use.

The official CJC money page documents the IMN requirement, CSG Pay, kiosk locations, phone deposits, and the kiosk fee.

The fee table above uses only the deposit fees and timing that were documented in the city source.

City Justice Center Intake

A newly arrested person in St. Louis City may not be searchable right away. The local sequence can include arrest by SLMPD or another law-enforcement agency, police processing, transport or transfer to CJC, admissions intake, property intake, medical and security screening, classification, and housing assignment. The locator warning is practical: inmate information changes quickly, and the public page may lag the actual custody event.

Property release is handled apart from inmate lookup. The CJC property page says the inmate can call the caseworker, or an outside person can call the Property Unit at ext. 2233 or ext. 2270. The person retrieving property must bring valid identification to CJC. The documented property release hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-4 p.m., with no appointment and no fee.

City Justice Center Programs

CJC has program and reentry functions in addition to secure custody. The Corrections Division states that it provides opportunities for inmates to become more productive on re-entry. The contact list gives Inmate Programs at (314) 621-5848 ext. 1060 and (314) 389-4790 ext. 8305, Volunteer Programs ext. 1060, and Community Service Program ext. 1060. The facility page also links to PREA information and medical-record services.

Recent official city items describe CJC oversight and reform activity. A June 2025 mayoral update said Detention Facilities Oversight Board access to CJC had been restored. Public Safety news listed a February 2, 2026 detainee death under investigation by the SLMPD Force Investigation Unit. City ARPA project data listed City Justice Center renovations with $4,750,000 budgeted and expended. Those items are context for conditions and oversight, while custody status, visits, and money deposits still need confirmation through the facility or the relevant city service page.