Lehigh County Community Corrections Lookup

Community Corrections Overview

The official Lehigh County Community Corrections Center page places the CCC under the Lehigh County Department of Corrections. The county lists Warden Laura Kuykendall for the center. The facility is in Bethlehem and operates separately from Lehigh County Jail in Allentown. Its role is structured community corrections, not street-arrest intake, maximum-security housing, or a public booking-photo portal.

The county describes the CCC as a cost-effective alternative to secure confinement for sentenced individuals. Residents may enter the community for work, perform community service, use community-based resources, and receive support during reentry. That purpose changes the lookup path. A current arrest should be checked through Lehigh County Jail records first, while CCC questions should be routed to Department of Corrections contacts that can confirm whether a sentenced person has been assigned to the center.

The screenshot below comes from the official CCC source page and captures the county's facility description, address, capacity, and work-release framing.

That county source should be treated as the starting point for resident status, official visiting information, and reentry program details.

CCC Work Release Role

Lehigh County Community Corrections Center is a 400-bed facility. It was renovated in 2011 and functions as a structured community corrections and pre-release setting. The research identifies the population as sentenced individuals approved for work, community service, community-based resources, and reentry programming under structured parameters. It does not describe the CCC as the county's main booking jail, a police lockup, or a general pretrial detention facility.

The available population figures show why the CCC should be described with care. Lehigh County annual reports listed 185 people in Community Corrections in the 2015 average daily jail census and 189 in the 2016 average daily jail census. Earlier PREA audit data found in county PDF search results showed CCC average daily population at zero for that audit period. The research does not identify a current daily CCC resident count, so the only current facility number used here is the county-published 400-bed capacity.

CCC vs Lehigh County Jail

The main jail and the CCC are both county correctional facilities, but they serve different custody needs. Lehigh County Jail is the secure jail for booking, pre-trial detention, local sentences, higher custody levels, and some federal detainees. The Community Corrections Center is for sentenced residents in a structured setting who may leave for approved work, service, or resource access. Confusing the two can send a caller to the wrong office.

A person who was just arrested in Lehigh County is more likely to be routed through Lehigh County Jail than the CCC. A person serving a county sentence may be considered for CCC placement only when approved under county rules. State-prison and parole status belong in the Pennsylvania DOC locator, not in the CCC contact path.

Community Corrections Lookup

No separate public CCC resident roster was located in the official county materials reviewed. The practical lookup path is a county Department of Corrections chain. Start with the CCC control booth or sergeant's desk if the question is about a known CCC resident. If the person may have been newly arrested, start with Lehigh County Jail records. If the person has moved to state prison or parole supervision, use Pennsylvania DOC.

1. Confirm whether the person is a sentenced resident assigned to the CCC, not a new arrestee or pretrial detainee.
2. Call the CCC Control Booth at 610-778-5328 or the Sergeant's Desk at 610-778-5334 with the person's full legal name and date of birth if known.
3. For main jail custody, call Lehigh County Jail Records Information at 610-782-3263 or General Information at 610-782-3270.
4. Use Pennsylvania UJS Case Search to check docket status, sentence events, bail actions, and pending court dates.
5. Use Pennsylvania VINE as a custody-status and notification supplement where covered.
6. File a Lehigh County Right-to-Know request through the county Open Records Officer for non-exempt records that are not available by phone.

For state-sentenced inmates and parolees, the Pennsylvania DOC locator is updated daily and requires a last name or inmate number. The state service says county-facility inmates cannot be found there, so it should not be used as the first search for a CCC resident unless DOC custody or parole supervision is part of the question.

CCC Address and Contacts

The CCC has its own address and direct phone contacts. Use these numbers for questions specific to community corrections residents, work-release status, visiting routing, and day-to-day facility contact. Use the main jail numbers instead for booking, intake, inmate ID, jail mail, and secure-custody records.

CCC Visiting Information

The research captured the Lehigh County Jail visiting schedule, but it did not capture a specific CCC visiting schedule. The county materials identify a CCC Visiting Information link in the Community Corrections Center navigation. Because the CCC is a work-release and reentry setting, visiting rules may differ from the main jail's non-contact screen visits and rotating housing-unit schedule. Do not assume the jail schedule applies to CCC residents.

Readers should call before traveling to Bethlehem. Have the resident's full legal name, date of birth if known, and any facility ID or court docket number available. Ask whether the resident is eligible for a visit, whether scheduling is required, what identification is accepted, and whether work-release movement changes the visit window.

CCC Mail and Money

The research did not capture a separate CCC mail-format rule, phone vendor rule, or deposit fee table. The safest public instruction is to call the CCC before sending mail or funds and to avoid applying main jail rules to a work-release resident unless staff confirms that the same procedure is used. If a person is actually at Lehigh County Jail, the jail mail format requires the inmate's name and ID number plus the jail address.

CCC Reentry Support

The CCC page supplies the strongest reentry material in the Lehigh County corrections research. The county says the center is actively looking for mentors to guide and assist residents through the reentry process. Mentors provide a prosocial presence in the pre-release setting and offer nonjudgmental interpersonal support. That focus fits the CCC's purpose as a structured alternative to secure confinement.

Work release and community service are not the same as release from custody. A resident may be approved to leave the center for work or other structured purposes while still being subject to facility rules, sentence terms, curfews, accountability, and return requirements. Community-based resources can support employment, treatment, family stability, and reentry planning, but the county source does not provide a public list of every approved program or provider.

Work release

Structured custody that lets an approved sentenced resident work in the community under facility rules.

Community corrections

A supervised setting between secure jail housing and full community release.

Reentry

Planning and support for a person's return to the community after confinement.

CCC Records Requests

Lehigh County's Right-to-Know process is the records fallback when a CCC record is not available by phone or through a court docket. The county Open Records Officer is Sheila Dutra-Michel. The county accepts requests by email at OpenRecords@lehighcounty.org, by mail or drop-off at the Lehigh County Government Center, Department of Law, c/o Open Records Officer, 17 S. 7th St., Allentown, PA 18101, and by fax at 610-871-2796. Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know process requires a written response within five business days, unless the county grants, denies, or invokes a 30-day extension.

Requests should be narrow. A useful CCC request identifies the resident, date range, facility, and specific record type, such as assignment status, non-exempt movement record, or a specific policy. Juvenile, medical, security, criminal-investigative, personal-identification, victim, and CHRIA limits may restrict disclosure. Court charges, sentence events, and docket activity should be checked through UJS or the Clerk of Judicial Records Criminal Division rather than through a broad CCC request.