Charlevoix County Corrections

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The Charlevoix County Corrections is located at 1000 Grant Street in Charlevoix, MI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Charlevoix County Corrections, like how to find an inmate at the Charlevoix County Corrections, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information and tips that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that could help others will be much appreciated.

Charlevoix County Corrections Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Charlevoix County Corrections Inmate Roster is a roster of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find info about anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Charlevoix County Corrections Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Charlevoix County Corrections is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you will answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to use the phone so you can call family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. This process will take from 15 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, plan to be released in the morning.

Charlevoix County Corrections Visitation

The inmate need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Charlevoix County Corrections before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in the log for the inmate. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Charlevoix County Corrections visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the facility at (231) 547-4461 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Charlevoix County Corrections you have to first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Charlevoix County Corrections, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Charlevoix County Corrections. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Charlevoix County Corrections is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Charlevoix County Corrections. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Charlevoix County Corrections to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Charlevoix County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Charlevoix County Corrections inmates are always changing, so you should double check the Charlevoix County Corrections site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Charlevoix County Corrections

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Charlevoix County Corrections uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (231) 547-4461 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Charlevoix County Corrections store. You can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that Charlevoix County Corrections inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (231) 547-4461

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls are split with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Charlevoix County Corrections. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Charlevoix County Corrections, click the link below.

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