Minimum Housing Units 1 and 2 Inmate Search

Minimum Housing Units Jail Role

Minimum Housing Units 1 and 2 are operated by the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office at the Hackett Road detention campus in Modesto. The official page lists Facility Commander Lieutenant Chavarin. These units are minimum-security county jail facilities, not a state prison and not a separate city jail. The county roster is still the controlling public lookup for people housed there.

Minimum Housing Unit 1 opened in 1994 as part of the Public Safety Center and SDC-West minimum-security setting. Unit 2 opened in 2013. The Sheriff's history explains that after the Men's Honor Farm on Grayson Road closed and Unit 2 opened, Units 1 and 2 became their own facility. Unit 2 replaced barracks destroyed in a 2010 fire at the Men's Honor Farm, which is a key local detail for why the current minimum housing setup exists.

The minimum-security label does not remove custody rules. People assigned here remain under the Sheriff's Adult Detention Division. They still need approved visits, booking-number mail, commissary account access, and phone rules. A person may also be moved from minimum housing to another Stanislaus County facility if classification, conduct, court status, or medical needs change.

Minimum Housing Units Capacity

The official Minimum Housing Units page lists Unit 1 as a 192-bed facility and Unit 2 as a 192-bed facility. Together, the two units provide 384 beds. The research did not locate a current daily population count limited to these units. The Sheriff's broader detention overview gives an Adult Detention Division population above 1,400 across pre-trial, sentenced, and out-of-custody people.

When checking custody, the most important roster fact is the facility field. It can show whether the person is in Minimum Housing, but it does not replace an official capacity report or a live population count by unit.

Search Minimum Housing Jail Records

Use the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Who's in Jail roster for Minimum Housing Units 1 and 2. Search by name, date of birth, or seven-digit booking number. If the person is known to be in Minimum Housing, use the facility filter. If not, leave the search on all facilities, because a person may be listed in SDC-East, SDC-West, Minimum Housing, or REACT depending on classification and timing.

1. Open the Sheriff's Who's in Jail page.
2. Search by booking number when available, or use name and date of birth.
3. Review the result list for the person's booking number and booking date.
4. Open the full booking detail and confirm the facility field.
5. Use the booking number for mail, deposits, and follow-up questions.

If a person is no longer in county custody after sentencing, search CDCR CIRIS rather than the county roster. Federal and immigration custody use separate national lookup tools.

Minimum Housing Units Contact

The Minimum Housing Units have a separate public phone number from the SDC-East and SDC-West line. Use it for facility-specific questions about a person assigned to Minimum Housing, visiting logistics, and general detention routing. Formal records requests still follow Sheriff's Records Division procedures when the request is for a document rather than current custody confirmation.

Minimum Housing Units Visiting

Minimum Housing Units have video visitation through JailATM and in-person visits through glass scheduled with ICSolutions. The Sheriff's facility page says public visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours ahead, with a maximum of 10 incarcerated persons per visit block and up to four visitors at one time for each incarcerated person. General visitor approval rules still apply.

Visitors must have valid government identification, and minors must be listed before approval. Applicants can be denied for current probation, an open case, recent prison or jail confinement, victim status, restraining orders, or certain recent custody histories. Clothing, contraband, search, and one-inmate-per-day limits also apply.

Minimum Housing Units Mail and Money

The same Stanislaus County detention mail and money rules apply unless staff give a specific instruction. Personal mail is routed to the JailATM central processing address and delivered digitally after scanning. The incarcerated person's name and booking number must be included. Books, legal mail, Medi-Cal cards, and welfare cards go to the Sheriff's Detention Center street address.

Deposits use TouchPay with the county facility locator number while the Sheriff's notice references a transition to Access Corrections. Phone accounts use ICSolutions. JailATM also supports electronic messages and photos, but images may be rejected for nudity, sexual content, drug content, violence, screenshots of messages or social media, or other rule violations.

Minimum Housing Classification

Minimum Housing placement follows county classification. A person may be booked through SDC-East and later assigned to Minimum Housing when security level, conduct, sentence status, program needs, and facility space support that placement. Minimum security does not mean unsupervised release. It means the Sheriff's Office has classified the person for a lower-security county housing setting.

The Sheriff's detention philosophy says alternatives to incarceration are used consistent with public safety and incarcerated-person rights, and people are classified to the least restrictive housing mode consistent with safety. That principle helps explain why Minimum Housing Units exist alongside maximum-security, medical, mental-health, and program-based spaces on the same campus.

Minimum Housing Units History

The Minimum Housing Units have one of the clearest local histories in the Stanislaus County jail system. Unit 1 opened in 1994. Unit 2 opened in 2013 after a fire destroyed barracks at the Men's Honor Farm in 2010. When the Men's Honor Farm on Grayson Road closed and Unit 2 opened, the two minimum-security units became their own facility within the Sheriff's detention system.

Programs and services flow through the Adult Detention Division. The Sheriff's materials identify education, substance-abuse groups, parenting, high school equivalency, chaplain services, library access, vocational activities, and recreational programs. Some programs may be limited by housing area, security needs, staff availability, and facility command decisions.