Chippewa County Correctional Facility

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The Chippewa County Correctional Facility is located at 331 Court Street in Sault St Marie, MI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Chippewa County Correctional Facility, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and tips you need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that could help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Chippewa County Correctional Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Chippewa County Correctional Facility Inmate Roster is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get the same information on anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Chippewa County Correctional Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. This process takes between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released will depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a date of your release, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Chippewa County Correctional Facility Visitation

Inmates need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Chippewa County Correctional Facility in advance. Your visitors will be put into a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the jail at (906) 635-7620 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility you have to first be added to this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Chippewa County Correctional Facility, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility 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 Chippewa County Correctional Facility. 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 Chippewa County Correctional Facility 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 think you might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the website, or at the Chippewa County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates could change, so it would be best to review the Chippewa County Correctional Facility website when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Chippewa County Correctional Facility

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 Chippewa County Correctional Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (906) 635-7620 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 Chippewa County Correctional Facility store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products including 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Chippewa County Correctional Facility are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are usually pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden completely.

The Chippewa County Correctional Facility phone number is: (906) 635-7620

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 the prices. 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 Chippewa County Correctional Facility. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Chippewa County Correctional Facility, click the link below.

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