Adult Detention

The Danville Adult Detention Center (ADC) is a minimum-security work prison. The facility houses approximately 160 men. Most are assigned throughout the City to one of several work crews. Their responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining road side gardens
• Mowing all main thoroughfares, rights of way, and City parks
• Removing leaves and litter
• Cleaning brush, trees, and other vegetation
• Sorting and distributing trash for the City recycling program
• Preparing and cleaning snow and ice from bridges, City sidewalks and parking lots
• Performing grounds maintenance
• Painting and renovating City buildings
• Picking up and delivering materials for City departments such as the Courts, Social Services, Library, etc.
• Maintaining the ADC inmate population: cooking, cleaning, laundry, building and grounds renovation and maintenance (including providing meals and laundry services for female inmates supervised by the Sheriff's Department)

Also, ADC provides several programs for inmates, including:

• Medical services
• Education program directed toward achieving a GED
• A work release and weekender incarceration program directed toward allowing legitimately employed inmates to retain their employment during their incarceration period
• A transition program directed toward assisting Danville area inmates incarcerated in state prisons to seamlessly return to society