Maurice Spear Campus Overview
Maurice Spear Campus is operated by Lenawee County at a 35-acre site in Adrian. The county describes the campus as a place for troubled youth and families that provides a safe and secure environment. Its role is distinct from the adult jail at 549 N Winter Street and from Gus Harrison Correctional Facility, which is a state prison for adult men.
The campus includes five buildings: secure detention, a residential treatment center or open unit, a school, a gymnasium, and a chapel. The Maurice Spear Detention Unit is the secure portion of the campus. The county describes that unit as a boys and girls secure facility for safety, structure, and security. It serves in-county and out-of-county adjudicated youth.
Because Maurice Spear is a juvenile detention and treatment setting, public access is not the same as an adult inmate roster. Juvenile custody information is more restricted. A reader searching for an adult arrest, bond, mugshot, or jail release should not treat Maurice Spear as a fallback adult jail list. The campus belongs in the county detention map because people may search for "detention" or "inmate" and find its name, but its records lane is separate.
The official county campus page is the matched source for the campus screenshot and the county's description of its buildings and purpose.
The campus screenshot supports facility identity, while detention-unit access and custody questions still require direct county or court-approved channels.
Maurice Spear Detention Capacity
The county lists Maurice Spear Campus as a 66-bed campus, with the Detention Unit described as a 26-bed secure boys and girls facility. Those figures are juvenile facility capacities. They should not be added to the adult jail's average daily population or to the state prison capacity at Gus Harrison. The population held at Maurice Spear consists of youth in detention or treatment settings, including in-county and out-of-county adjudicated youth.
| Measure | Figure | Record Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Facility type | County-operated juvenile detention and treatment campus | Not an adult jail roster facility. |
| Campus capacity | 66 beds | County Maurice Spear Campus page. |
| Detention Unit capacity | 26 beds | County Detention Unit page. |
| Population held | Adjudicated youth | Includes in-county and out-of-county youth. |
Maurice Spear Record Access
A Maurice Spear Campus lookup is not an open adult inmate search. No public searchable youth roster is published in the county facility materials, and juvenile records are legally distinct from adult booking records. Families, attorneys, courts, and approved agencies should use the facility and the juvenile court process rather than the adult county jail roster path. Adult jail inmate search questions belong with Lenawee County Jail, and sentenced adult prison questions belong in MDOC OTIS.
- Confirm whether the person is a juvenile connected to Maurice Spear Campus or an adult connected to another facility.
- For juvenile detention questions, contact Maurice Spear Campus directly at 517-265-5171.
- Use the Juvenile Court or assigned legal representative when court authorization or case access is required.
- For adult county jail custody, use Lenawee County Jail at 517-265-4400 instead of Maurice Spear.
- For adult sentenced prisoners, search MDOC OTIS rather than any county juvenile channel.
Important: Maurice Spear Campus is a juvenile facility, so adult mugshot, bond, and roster expectations do not apply.
Maurice Spear Contact
Use the campus phone for facility contact, approved family questions, and detention-unit routing. The county lists a phone and fax for Maurice Spear Campus but does not publish a public adult-style records counter for youth roster searches. When a court case, guardian status, legal representative, or agency placement controls access, the requester may need to work through the court or assigned official rather than asking for a public roster printout.
Maurice Spear Campus
2910 Airport Road
Adrian, MI 49221
517-265-5171
Fax: 517-265-5173
Maurice Spear Visits
No public social visitation schedule comparable to the Lenawee County Jail video-booth schedule is published for Maurice Spear Campus. That difference is expected because the campus serves youth in secure detention and treatment settings. Visit access can depend on the youth's legal status, court orders, parent or guardian status, treatment plan, facility rules, safety concerns, and current unit operations. Public users should not apply adult jail visiting rules, adult video-vendor rules, or MDOC prison visiting rules to Maurice Spear.
| Visitor or Contact Type | Likely Access Path | What to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Parent or guardian | Contact Maurice Spear Campus | Approval, schedule, ID, and any court limits. |
| Attorney | Facility and court process | Professional access rules and case authority. |
| Agency worker | Assigned agency channel | Placement status and permitted contact method. |
| General public | No public adult-style visit route found | Juvenile detention is not open roster visitation. |
The county Detention Unit page is the matched source for the secure-unit screenshot and the 26-bed unit description.
The detention screenshot reinforces the secure juvenile context, which is why adult jail roster assumptions should be avoided.
Maurice Spear Mail Contact
No adult-style commissary vendor, phone vendor, package vendor, or public money-deposit table is published for Maurice Spear Campus. Do not use the Lenawee County Jail TouchPay facility number, jail kiosk, GettingOut video visitation, or iCare/Aramark jail package rules for youth at Maurice Spear unless the facility gives that instruction directly. The adult jail's phone and money systems belong to adult jail custody.
| Service | Published Detail | Practical Route |
|---|---|---|
| No public adult-style mail table located | Ask Maurice Spear Campus for approved format and restrictions. | |
| Phone contact | No public youth phone schedule located | Confirm approved family or professional contact through the campus. |
| Money or packages | No jail-style vendor documented | Do not use adult jail TouchPay or iCare details. |
| Records | No public searchable youth roster located | Use facility, court, or authorized agency channels. |
Maurice Spear Youth Intake
Adult jail booking starts with an arrest, fingerprints, booking photo, classification, and jail housing. Maurice Spear youth detention is a different process. The county describes the Detention Unit as a secure facility for safety, structure, and security, serving adjudicated youth. The campus also includes treatment and school functions, so placement may involve court, agency, family, and programming decisions rather than a public adult booking workflow.
"Adjudicated youth" means a juvenile whose case has been handled through the juvenile justice process. It is not the same as an adult defendant serving a county jail sentence. For that reason, adult arrest terms such as bond, mugshot gallery, county jail roster, and prison sentence should be used with care. Maurice Spear should be described as juvenile detention and treatment, not as another adult jail in Adrian.
About Maurice Spear Campus
The campus includes educational programming through Lenawee Intermediate School District and summer enrichment groups that help residents transition back to the community. The county frames the campus around a safe and secure environment for youth and families, not around adult public inmate search. Local news and county social posts described renovation and expansion activity at Maurice Spear, including additional beds, but that youth-campus expansion should not be used as adult jail capacity.
Maurice Spear completes the local detention map because Lenawee County has three different custody contexts in Adrian: the adult county jail, the state prison, and the juvenile campus. Searches fail when those systems are mixed. Use the county jail for adult pre-trial and county-sentence custody, MDOC OTIS for adult state prisoners, and Maurice Spear or court-authorized channels for youth detention and treatment questions.
For an adult custody search after a local arrest, start with Lenawee County Jail. For a sentenced adult prisoner in Adrian, use the state prison page for Gus Harrison Correctional Facility and OTIS.
Note: Confirm youth contact, visitation, and record access directly with Maurice Spear Campus or the court-authorized contact.