Trinity County Juvenile Hall

Trinity County Juvenile Hall basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 530-623-1204

This facility is for juvenile residents.

The Trinity County Juvenile Hall is a medium to low-security detention center located at 333 Tom Bell Rd Weaverville, CA that is operated locally by the Juvenile Justice Department and holds youths awaiting the determination of punishment for the crimes which they are accused. Most of the adolescents are here for less than two years.

The Juvenile Hall is a co-ed special purpose (96-hour maximum hold) facility with a rated capacity of twenty-eight; twelve double occupancy rooms and one four-person dormitory in a podular design. The facility is adjacent to Lonnie Pool Field a public airfield also known as the Weaverville Airport. This general aviation airport covers 65 acres and has one runway.

The programs are designed around evidence-based practices with a primary focus on restorative justice and seek to stabilize at-risk youth while also providing the necessary structure to ensure success at home in the community. This is accomplished through a focus on individualized comprehensive case planning in areas ranging from skill-building, vocational readiness/life skills training, academic tutoring, drug and alcohol counseling, and victim awareness and impact training.

All youth are given a physical examination within 96 hours of being admitted into the Juvenile Hall. On-going health care is overseen by a county medical public health doctor.

This facility partner with Trinity County Behavioral Health, Trinity County AODS, and the Human Response Network for special needs and services in these areas.

The following programs are provided at the Juvenile Hall:

• Substance Use/Abuse Education and Intervention
• Life Skills
• Religious Services and Counseling (if requested)
• Mental Health Assessment and Counseling – Trinity County Behavioral Health
• Victim Awareness and Impact
• Anger Management
• Vocational Readiness Program
• Academic Tutoring

Reading materials are available to youth in the facility. However, the family may bring in books or magazines with the understanding that any books brought in become the property of the Juvenile Hall.

Recreation and leisure activities in Juvenile Hall include such things as basketball, foosball, ping pong, handball, hacky sack, drawing/art, reading, listening to music, writing, and watching TV/movies.

visitation Info

Trinity County Juvenile Hall – Visitation

Visiting Hours

• Sunday afternoons – 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Parents or legal guardians are allowed to make an appointment to visit youth on Sunday afternoon.

No person under the age of 18 will be allowed to visit without prior approval from a Probation Officer.

To make an appointment call (530) 623-1204 Ext. 134

• Visits are made by appointment in one-hour time slots.
• If a minor's family resides more than 60 miles outside of Weaverville they may have, by appointment and if time allows a two-hour visit.
• Phone visits are made by appointment in thirty-minute time slots.
• This courtesy can be revoked if the youth or parent/guardian abuses this privilege.

Official visits are those made by a minor's attorney, the Judge, law enforcement, and other legally constituted officials in the pursuit of their official duties. These visits may occur at any time during waking hours. Official visits during sleeping hours will only occur in serious emergency situations and with the review and approval of the senior staff.

Visits can be terminated when such visits are unduly upsetting to the visitor or minor, or when a visitor or minor violates visiting rules and termination is deemed necessary by Juvenile Hall staff.