Hudson County Jail Overview
Hudson County Adult Correctional Center, also called Hudson County Correctional Center in some references, is operated by the Hudson County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The official directions page places the facility at 30-35 South Hackensack Avenue in Kearny, New Jersey. Union County's own visiting page names Hudson County Jail as one of the places where Union County inmates may be located and gives 201-395-5600 for callers to follow prompts.
That connection makes Hudson relevant for Union County inmate population searches, even though the facility is outside Union County. It should be treated as a regional county jail, not as a New Jersey state prison and not as ICE detention. If a Union County inmate is housed at Hudson, Hudson's visit, commissary, phone, and contact rules control the day-to-day questions.
The Hudson County corrections directions page confirms the Kearny facility address and gives the official driving-route source for visitors.
For Union County families, the directions source matters only after the person has been confirmed at Hudson rather than Essex or Union intake.
Hudson County Jail Population
No official current capacity or population figure for Hudson County Adult Correctional Center was located in accessible public text. A non-official county-court reference mentioned about 1,800, but that figure should not be published as an official facility capacity. The safer statement is that Hudson is a county adult correctional center used by Hudson and, when Union's instructions point there, some Union County inmates.
This research gap matters because regional jail numbers are often reused without dates. For Union County inmate population content, the documented numbers are Union's former jail decline and Essex's 2022 capacity and population range. Hudson should be included as a real housing path named by Union County, but not assigned an unsupported bed count or daily population number.
| Item | Documented Hudson Detail |
|---|---|
| Facility type | County adult correctional center. |
| Operator | Hudson County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. |
| Address | 30-35 South Hackensack Avenue, Kearny, NJ 07032-4690. |
| Union County role | Named by Union's visiting page as a possible inmate-location jail. |
| Official capacity | Not confirmed in accessible official public text reviewed for this facility. |
Hudson County Inmate Lookup
For a Union County arrest, do not begin with Hudson unless the person has already been identified as housed there. Start with the Union County Sheriff inmate lookup and the Union corrections phone. If Union's visiting page or phone prompts point to Hudson, call Hudson County Jail at 201-395-5600 and follow the prompts. Hudson's official site has contacts, directions, visitation references, commissary links, and phone links, but detailed schedules were not captured in the research because the pages required JavaScript.
- Search Union County first when the arrest began in Union County.
- Call Hudson at 201-395-5600 if Union instructions or the record indicate Hudson housing.
- Use Hudson official contacts to confirm housing, visit status, and deposit options.
- If the person was sentenced to state prison, switch to the NJDOC Offender Search instead.
Hudson custody is still county jail custody. It is different from NJDOC state-prison custody, BOP federal custody, and ICE civil immigration detention. That distinction prevents a common search error: using a federal or state locator for a county inmate who is simply housed at a regional county jail.
If the Union lookup is unavailable or returns no result, use the time line. A very recent arrest may still be in police processing or Union intake. A person held after first appearance may have moved to Essex or Hudson. A sentenced person may no longer be in county jail custody at all. The Hudson call is most useful after Union records, family notice, attorney information, or the Union visiting page points to Hudson as the actual housing jail.
Hudson County Jail Contact
The primary phone documented for Hudson County Adult Correctional Center is 201-395-5600. Hudson public results also exposed correctional contacts and extensions, including visitation, central control, inmate advocate, and records-related references, but the exact current extension list should be verified through Hudson's live contact page. The main official phone is the safer public contact route.
Hudson County Adult Correctional Center
30-35 South Hackensack Avenue
Kearny, NJ 07032-4690
201-395-5600
Call and follow prompts for inmate location, visits, and facility services.
The Hudson County corrections contacts page is the official source for current contact routing and jail extensions.
Because extensions and unit routing can change, the main phone and current contacts page are safer than relying on copied third-party jail directories.
Hudson County Jail Visits
Union County's visiting instructions say to call Hudson County Jail and follow prompts. Official Hudson material references in-person and video visitation, but a full schedule was not available from the static public text because detailed pages required JavaScript. Confirm the person is at Hudson, then use Hudson's official visitation page or phone prompts for current visit windows, sign-up rules, identification, and video options.
| Visit issue | Hudson County path |
|---|---|
| Current schedule | Call 201-395-5600 or use the official Hudson visitation page. |
| In-person visits | Referenced by Hudson official search results; confirm current status before travel. |
| Video visits | Referenced by Hudson official search results; use current Hudson instructions. |
| Union County inmate | Confirm Hudson housing before using Hudson visit rules. |
Visitors should expect photo ID, screening, conduct rules, and limits on property because those are standard county correctional center controls. No specific Hudson dress code, visit duration, or fee schedule was confirmed in the accessible source text, so those details should come from Hudson directly.
Note: Do not travel to Hudson for a Union County inmate until Hudson confirms the housing location and visit status.
Hudson County Jail Money
Hudson official public results reference commissary and phone links, Access Corrections for funds, and account options that may include money orders or credit-card deposits. A current fee table was not captured in accessible text. That means Access Corrections can be named cautiously as a referenced official link, but deposit fees, phone rates, kiosk hours, and mail-scanning addresses should come from Hudson directly.
| Service | Documented guidance |
|---|---|
| Funds | Hudson official results reference Access Corrections and account options. |
| Phone | Use Hudson commissary and phone links for current provider details. |
| Call Hudson for the current mailing format before sending mail or books. | |
| Fees | No official current fee table was captured; verify before paying. |
A Union County family should not use Essex's Las Vegas mail address or Essex money-order rules for someone housed at Hudson. Each regional jail uses its own service channels. First confirm custody, then use the facility-specific deposit and mail instructions.
Hudson County Jail Directions
Hudson's official directions page places the Adult Correctional Center at 30-35 South Hackensack Avenue in Kearny. The research notes that the directions page says drivers from the New Jersey Turnpike use exit 15E and ramp right for US-1/9 Truck. Because road access and visitor entry can change with construction or security needs, the directions page should be checked close to the visit date.
For Union County visitors, the main travel decision is not the route. It is whether Hudson is the correct jail. Union's old Elizabeth jail is an intake hub, Essex is the main contracted jail in the research, and Hudson is the other county jail named by Union's visiting instructions. A confirmed housing location prevents wasted travel to the wrong county facility.
Hudson County Jail Records
Hudson records for a Union County inmate should be read together with Union and court records. Union may have the initial arrest and intake record. Hudson may have housing, visit, phone, commissary, or incident information for the period when the person is there. NJ Courts holds the criminal case record after charges are filed. NJDOC takes over the locator path after a state-prison sentence.
For a public-records request, direct the request to the agency that maintains the record. Union County is the better starting point for Union intake records, classification questions tied to the sheriff lookup, and records created before transfer. Hudson is the better source for records created while the person is housed in Kearny. Court records, including formal charge status and disposition, should be requested through New Jersey Judiciary channels or the specific court rather than through a jail records office.
- County jail custody
- Pretrial or short-sentence custody in a county correctional facility.
- Regional housing
- A county inmate held in another county's jail under an agreement or facility routing.
- State-prison transfer
- Movement to NJDOC after a state-prison sentence, searched through NJDOC.
- ICE detention
- Civil immigration custody searched through ICE ODLS, not through Hudson.
Because Hudson's detailed schedule and fee pages were not fully captured in static research, the page avoids copied rates or visit blocks that may be wrong. That is a deliberate records-quality choice. The confirmed facts are the facility name, operator, Kearny address, main phone, Union County's instruction to call Hudson and follow prompts, and the existence of official Hudson directions, contacts, commissary, and phone-link pages.