The Saint Louis County Jail is locate inside the Buzz Westfall Justice Center in Clayton, Missouri at 100 South Central Avenue, about eight miles from downtown St. Louis. The holding capacity of the facility is 1,232 male and female inmates. The St. Louis County Jail is a direct-supervision facility that detains adults and juveniles being tried as adults who are awaiting trial or serving county sentences and is the only jail in Missouri that holds an accreditation know as the ALDF from the American Correctional Association (ACA). Opened in March of 1998, the center replaced both the jail in the 1949 St. Louis County Courthouse building and the Adult Correctional Building in Chesterfield, Missouri. The center was rededicated the “Buzz Westfall Justice Center” in 2004.