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WMRWC Facility Overview

The Western Massachusetts Recovery and Wellness Center is operated by the Hampden County Sheriff's Office at 155 Mill Street in Springfield. HCSO describes it as a co-ed regional minimum-security facility with community-based residential treatment and prerelease or reentry functions. It is not the same setting as the Main Institution in Ludlow, and it is not a Massachusetts Department of Correction state prison.

The facility's public mission centers on education and treatment for all pathways to recovery. HCSO describes goals of reducing recidivism, improving public safety, supporting sustained community reentry, and building individual wellness. That mission is important for custody lookup because a WMRWC resident may be in a step-down treatment, prerelease, recovery, education, community service, employment, fellowship, or community-engagement track rather than a conventional high-security housing unit.

The official WMRWC screenshot was captured from the HCSO Mill Street source page.

The source page supports the facility name, Mill Street address, reentry role, and recovery-focused custody model used for this Western Massachusetts Recovery and Wellness Center summary.

WMRWC Population Notes

The research located a 2021 PREA audit snippet for WMRWC. It listed designated capacity of 149, current population of 63, average daily population of 47, average length of stay of 168 days, and 275 admissions during the prior 12 months. It also described the resident population as both female and male, with minimum and PRC custody levels. Later materials may use the WMRWC acronym in ways that overlap with the women's regional center, so the 2021 WMRWC facility-specific audit figures are the clearest figures for the Mill Street page.

WMRWC Custody Search

No public HCSO online roster for WMRWC was located in the research. A current lookup should start with the facility phone when the person is believed to be a resident or prerelease participant. If the request is for a booking sheet, historical custody record, program-related public record, or other document not online, use the HCSO Records Access Officer. If the person has moved to a court, state-prison, federal, or immigration path, use that separate system.

1. Call WMRWC with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, court, and approximate custody or transfer date.
2. Ask whether the person is a current resident, prerelease participant, or treatment and reentry participant before sending money or planning contact.
3. Use the HCSO Records Access Officer for non-urgent records, with a specific written request.
4. Use MassCourts for the criminal case or court event tied to custody.
5. Use MADOC/VINE, BOP, or ICE ODLS only when the person is outside WMRWC and in one of those systems.

WMRWC Address and Contact

Use the facility contact for immediate resident, visit, or program-access questions. Use the RAO for formal public-records requests. The research states that the HCSO RAO phone is for request status or RAO questions only, and that telephone or voicemail public-records requests are not accepted.

WMRWC Visits and Access

The research did not capture a fixed public WMRWC weekly visit schedule. HCSO's WMRWC quick links include visitors and mail rules, but the safe facility-specific instruction is to confirm the current visitor process with WMRWC before travel. This is especially important because minimum-security and prerelease residents may have programming, treatment, work, community-service, or reentry obligations that differ from Main Institution housing schedules.

Visitors should confirm approved visitor status, identification rules, property limits, parking, and current program availability. The facility's role is more community-facing than the Main Institution, but it still operates under HCSO custody and security rules.

WMRWC Phone and Money

HCSO's systemwide inmate accounts and phone information says kiosks are located at HCCC, WCC, and WMRWC at 155 Mill Street. Deposits may also be made through Access Corrections by phone, web, or app. Access Corrections is a deposit tool, not a Hampden County inmate roster or warrant app. Phone service is provided through ICSolutions, and family or friends should confirm custody before adding funds.

WMRWC Intake and Reentry

WMRWC intake is tied to minimum-security placement, prerelease status, treatment needs, and reentry planning rather than the first arrest-booking process at the Main Institution. A person may arrive after classification, transfer, sentencing, program placement, or step-down review. Because the research describes both minimum and PRC custody levels, a lookup should ask not just whether the person is in custody, but whether WMRWC is the correct facility for that resident's current stage.

HCSO describes the WMRWC approach as holistic and focused on addiction, behavior change, healthy living, purposeful living, step-down treatment, recovery, education, community service, employment, fellowship, and community engagement. Those program details are part of why WMRWC has a different public-record and visit profile from the Ludlow jail.

WMRWC Programs and Records

WMRWC is part of a broader HCSO reentry system that also includes All-Inclusive Support Services and public-health-oriented programming. HCSO materials describe reentry goals that include reducing recidivism, improving public safety, and supporting sustained community return. The research also notes HCSO program themes in medication assisted treatment, mental health services, workforce training, and recovery support.

Public-records requests for WMRWC should be specific. Ask for the record type, person, approximate date, and facility. Massachusetts public-records law may allow release of non-exempt portions, but privacy, medical, treatment, CORI, investigatory, and other exemptions may apply. For a criminal case tied to a resident, use MassCourts or the clerk. For state-prison custody after transfer, use MADOC/VINE.