Philadelphia
Philadelphia Municipal Court
Criminal cases originating in Philadelphia are handled through the Philadelphia Municipal Court and Court of Common Pleas, rather than a network of Magisterial District Courts as in the surrounding counties.
Where Philadelphia Cases Are Heard
The Courts
Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice
1301 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-686-7000Adult criminal matters — Municipal Court criminal cases and Court of Common Pleas criminal trials. Known to most people simply as the Criminal Justice Center, or the CJC.
Philadelphia Family Court
1501 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-686-7000Juvenile delinquency matters are heard here — not at the Stout Center. If your child has been charged, this is the building.
Philadelphia Department of Prisons
Adult Detention
All four City facilities sit together on State Road in Northeast Philadelphia, PA 19136.
Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF)
7901 State Road
215-685-7843The largest facility in the system.
Detention Center (DC)
8201 State Road
215-685-8436The system's intake center, and its medical and behavioral health unit. Someone arrested in Philadelphia is most often processed here first.
Calls from any City facility are recorded. Be careful what you say on the phone, and to whom.
If a Juvenile Has Been Detained
Juvenile Detention
Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center (PJJSC)
91 North 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139
215-686-4845The city's only secure juvenile detention center, in West Philadelphia. Young people are held here at the request of the court while their cases are pending. Their hearings are at Family Court on Arch Street.
Facing charges in Philadelphia? Speak directly with the attorney.
Call 484-944-0834