Find Inmates at Tomoka Reality House CRC

What Tomoka Reality House CRC Is

Tomoka Reality House CRC, also known as the SMA Reality House Work Release, is a state community-release center. The letters CRC stand for community release center. The site is listed in the Florida Department of Corrections facility directory and is referenced as a Tomoka Correctional Institution satellite. The FDC is the state prison agency, and this center is part of that state system, run as a contract facility with a behavioral-health provider in the mix.

A few plain terms set the stage. Work release is a phase where a sentenced person leaves a state center for an approved job during the day, then returns at night. Community release is the broader category that work release falls under, covering supervised activity outside the fence near the end of a term. The men here are sentenced felons, not pretrial detainees and not free residents. A felony is a serious crime that can carry more than a year in state prison. The center exists to bridge the gap between a locked unit and full release.

Tomoka Reality House CRC Is Not the County Jail

This point deserves its own section because the address invites a mix-up. Tomoka Reality House CRC sits at 1341 Indian Lake Road in Daytona Beach. Just down the same road, at 1354 Indian Lake Road, stands the Volusia County Correctional Facility, a county jail run by the Volusia County Division of Corrections. The two share a road and nearly the same number, but they are different systems with different records.

The Reality House is a state FDC community-release center. The Correctional Facility is a county jail that holds county-sentenced inmates, lower-custody non-sentenced men, and all female inmates for the county. A person at the Reality House is in state custody and is found through the FDC search. A person at the county jail is in local custody and is found on the Volusia roster. Mixing the two leads to a failed search. The comparison below keeps them straight.

Who Is Held at Tomoka Reality House CRC

The center holds male state community-release and work-release participants. Each one is a sentenced felon still in FDC custody, placed here for the transition phase of a term. This is not a municipal jail, and it is not part of the Volusia County Division of Corrections roster.

The FDC does not publish a separate rated capacity for Tomoka Reality House CRC, and that number was not located in official sources. Rather than copy an unofficial figure, this page leaves the count out. What the directory does establish is the role: a male work-release setting where the daily routine turns on approved jobs, program time, and supervised community contact rather than long hours behind a locked door.

How to Find an Inmate at Tomoka Reality House CRC

Men at the Reality House are not on the Volusia county jail roster, even though the address sits near the county jail. They are found through the FDC Offender Search, the statewide locator the Florida Department of Corrections runs. The tool to use is the Inmate Population Information Search. It covers felony offenders sentenced to state prison or state supervision. It does not cover people in a county jail, on county probation, or under other local supervision.

1. Open the FDC Offender Search and choose the Inmate Population Information Search.
2. Enter a last name and first name, or a DC number if known. A DC number is the six-character FDC identifier, all digits or one letter and five digits.
3. Confirm the current location field points to the community-release center, not a prison or a county jail.
4. Open the profile for the offense, the sentence, and the projected release date.

A profile lists the name, DC number, current facility, race, sex, age, a photo, and release status. The FDC warns that location, status, and release dates can change fast. Population data refreshes fully once a week, while location and release dates update each night. If the person is not in FDC yet, they may still be a county case, in which case they would show on the Volusia county roster instead.

Tomoka Reality House CRC Address and Contact

The center sits on Indian Lake Road on the west side of Daytona Beach. The address and phone below come from the FDC facility directory and the Tomoka satellite references. For custody questions, the FDC offender search is the quicker route than a call.

Visiting and Contact Rules at Tomoka Reality House CRC

Visits across the FDC state system run on an approval process. A visitor age 12 or older must complete form DC6-111A and send it to the facility's classification department, the unit that manages an inmate's custody file. Processing takes about 30 days. After approval, visits are scheduled weekly, with the FDC window open Monday at 5:00 a.m. through Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. Walk-up visits without a scheduled slot are not allowed.

As a contract community-release center, this center may set day-to-day specifics the FDC does not publish statewide. Official visitation, mail, and fund rules unique to Tomoka Reality House CRC, beyond the directory listing and the parent FDC resources, were not located in official sources. The safe step is to confirm the center's own rules with the facility before counting on them.

Mail and Money at Tomoka Reality House CRC

Money for a resident follows the statewide FDC route, since the center belongs to the state system rather than a county vendor. Since May 1, 2024, the FDC money provider has been Correct Pay. Funds can go in online or by phone, and the phone line stays open around the clock. Mailed money orders, cashier's checks, and certified bank drafts must be made payable to Correct Pay and sent with a deposit slip to the central FDC deposit address in Bradenton. Paying the center's street address does not work for deposits.

A copy of the sender's valid ID must travel with a mailed deposit. Mail rules specific to this contract center, beyond the statewide FDC channel, were not located in official sources, so confirm any center-specific format with the facility. Because the bank fee and posting time both apply, send a deposit ahead of need.

How Residents Reach Tomoka Reality House CRC

A work-release center does not book people off the street. Residents arrive after the FDC already holds them and a review clears them for the work-release phase. In Volusia County, custody first moves from the county jail, where booking and pretrial steps happen, to the FDC once a court hands down a state sentence. Later in the term, the state may place a qualified man in work release.

That placement comes out of classification, the FDC process of setting a custody level and matching a person to housing and activity based on risk, record, and program needs. A man cleared for the lowest custody tiers can be assigned to a center like this one to start supervised work. Because that status can shift, a person may move among a prison, a work camp, and a center over a sentence. The Volusia County inmate population overview ties the local and state systems together for the wider county.

About Tomoka Reality House CRC

The Reality House is one of a small group of state community-release sites near Daytona Beach that share the aim of stepping men from prison toward release. The SMA Reality House name reflects the behavioral-health provider context the FDC directory notes. The day here centers on approved work, program time, and supervised community contact, not long lockdown hours.

Because the FDC does not publish a separate capacity, visitation schedule, or fee table just for this center, the dependable approach is to use the statewide FDC resources and the parent institution for anything the directory leaves open. The FDC facility directory lists the center, its address, and its phone number. For the secure-prison side of the same Tomoka complex, see the Tomoka Correctional Institution page.