Releases from Pine Grove
Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp is located at 13630 Aqueduct-Volcano Road in Pine Grove, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 1040, Pine Grove, CA 95665. CDCR's facility information says the Division of Adult Institutions maintains the camp and, as of January 2023, screens and accepts youths age 18 and older from counties that contract with CDCR-DAI. That makes Pine Grove different from both Amador County Jail and Mule Creek State Prison.
A release or discharge from Pine Grove may involve return to the sending county or community, a supervision plan, a transfer to another CDCR placement, discharge, or a court or custody-authority action. Because the population and case sources can involve youth-related records, the public path is narrower than an adult jail-style search. The page should not imply that every participant's case file, photo, discharge document, or custody detail is publicly searchable online.
The first question is who owns the record. If the person was held at Pine Grove under CDCR authority, use CDCR/CIRIS and CDCR records contacts for custody location or release status. If the case-level question concerns disposition, conditions, sending-county authority, juvenile-court authority, or discharge paperwork, the sending county court or custody agency may be the proper source. California VINE may help with custody-change notifications where the person is covered, but VINE is not a permanent discharge archive.
How to Confirm Pine Grove Status
Pine Grove should be treated as a CDCR youth conservation camp path, not a county-jail release path. The Amador Sheriff Citizen RIMS portal covers current in-custody and recent booking context for Amador County Jail. It is not the official way to confirm a Pine Grove release. Use the statewide and sending-county route instead, and be prepared for lawful confidentiality limits.
- Check CDCR CIRIS at ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov if the person is old enough and otherwise covered by the public state-custody lookup.
- Search by CDCR number if known; otherwise search by full legal name and spelling variants.
- If CIRIS lists Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp or another CDCR location, use that as a custody-location clue, then confirm through CDCR if the release or transfer status matters.
- If CIRIS is missing or unclear, call CDCR Identification Unit at (916) 445-6713 during the hours CDCR lists for CIRIS assistance.
- For formal documents, use CDCR's Public Records Portal or other CDCR public-record request channels, naming the facility, approximate date, and the specific record requested.
- For case disposition or discharge authority, contact the sending county court, juvenile/custody authority, or supervising agency identified in the case record.
- Use California VINE for custody-change notification where available, but confirm any final release or discharge with the record-owning agency.
Pine Grove Records and Contact
CDCR lists Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp at 13630 Aqueduct-Volcano Road, Pine Grove, CA 95665, with mailing address P.O. Box 1040, Pine Grove, CA 95665 and phone (209) 296-7581. That facility contact is useful for routing and basic facility questions. For release/discharge verification, however, the practical record path can include CDCR Identification Unit, CDCR Public Records Portal, VINE, the sending county, and the court or juvenile authority connected to the case.
Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp
13630 Aqueduct-Volcano Road
Pine Grove, CA 95665
(209) 296-7581
Mailing: P.O. Box 1040, Pine Grove, CA 95665
CDCR and Sending-County Records
CIRIS: ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov
CDCR Identification Unit: (916) 445-6713
Use the sending court or county authority for case-level disposition or discharge paperwork.
A request should include identifying information, the suspected facility, approximate custody or release date, sending county if known, and the specific document requested. If the answer involves juvenile records, sealed records, a confidential file, or a participant who is not publicly listed, the agency may decline public release or direct the requester to a court process.
About Pine Grove Camp
CDCR describes Pine Grove as a conservation camp maintained by the Division of Adult Institutions. The CDCR facility page captured in the research states that the program screens and accepts youths age 18 and older from counties that contract with CDCR-DAI. CDCR's Inside CDCR Pine Grove article adds local historical context: Pine Grove has operated since 1945 and offers rehabilitation and reentry services through career training, therapy, and teamwork.
| Facility fact | Why it matters for release lookup |
|---|---|
| Operator | CDCR Division of Adult Institutions, in connection with the youth conservation camp program |
| Population note | CDCR source says youths age 18 and older may be accepted from contracting counties |
| History | CDCR article says Pine Grove has operated since 1945 |
| Public-record caution | Do not promise adult jail-style public files, photos, or release lists |
The manifest includes a Pine Grove facility image from CDCR's facility-locator source, matching the facility details and contact information used on this page.
Use the image as a source-reference snapshot. For current status or a release/discharge record, follow the live CDCR and sending-county record channels because program details and public access rules can change.
Youth and Confidentiality Limits
Pine Grove is the facility in this Amador project where confidentiality wording is most important. A participant may be connected to youth programming, a sending county, or a court or custody authority whose records are not publicly visible in the same way as an adult county-jail booking. The sheriff records page for Amador separately warns that juvenile reports require a court order or applicable standing order, and that local rule reinforces the broader caution: youth-related release research cannot be treated as an open public roster search.
That does not mean no verification path exists. It means the public page should direct users to the agencies that can lawfully answer. CDCR may be able to confirm public state-custody information through CIRIS or its Identification Unit when the person is covered. The sending court or county may explain case disposition, placement, supervision, or discharge. VINE may provide custody-change notifications where the participant is in a participating data feed. But none of those tools should be described as a complete public case file.
Pine Grove's Local Role
The facility-specific angle for Amador is that Pine Grove sits in the same small county as the primary local jail and Mule Creek State Prison, but it represents a distinct CDCR youth conservation camp pathway. CDCR's article describes Pine Grove as a long-running program with rehabilitation and reentry services, career training, therapy, and teamwork. That local role can matter to families and attorneys trying to understand why a person was in Amador County without ever appearing as a standard Amador County Jail release.
The second Pine Grove manifest image comes from CDCR's Inside CDCR article about Pine Grove's rehabilitation history and program context.
The follow-up check remains the same: match the person to the right record owner before assuming release information is public. Pine Grove status is a CDCR and sending-authority question, not a sheriff 24-hour release-list question.
When to Use Other Facility Pages
Use Amador County Jail when the person was booked by the sheriff's jail at 700 Court Street and the needed proof is a local booking or release document. Use Mule Creek State Prison when the person was an adult CDCR state prisoner in Ione and the issue involves CIRIS, DAPO parole, BPH results, or CDCR discharge records. Use this Pine Grove page when the search concerns the CDCR youth conservation camp and may require extra caution about confidentiality and sending-county authority.
The common mistake is to treat every Amador facility as a county jail. The county jail, Mule Creek, and Pine Grove all require different lookup routes, different records custodians, and different public-access expectations.
For Pine Grove, the sending authority may matter as much as the facility. CDCR may maintain the placement and facility-status layer, while the county or court that sent the participant may hold the case disposition, supervision order, or discharge paperwork. If a public CDCR search does not show enough detail, the next step is not the Amador jail roster. It is CDCR assistance, the sending court, VINE if covered, and any lawful records channel tied to the original case.
The public wording should also avoid treating Pine Grove as a booking-photo or release-list source. The research supports a CDCR facility page, a CDCR article about the camp's rehabilitation role, and statewide custody-status channels. It does not support a public gallery, a county jail release feed, or a promise that every youth-related discharge record can be viewed online. That limit is part of the facility's release path, not a missing detail.