Erie County Correctional

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The Erie County Correctional is located at 11581 Walden Avenue in Alden, NY and is a medium security county jail operated by the Erie County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Erie County Correctional, such as how to locate an inmate at the Erie County Correctional, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Erie County court records, and lots more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Erie County Correctional
7. Erie County Correctional Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Erie County Correctional
10. How to Search Erie County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or tips that would help others would be appreciated.

Erie County Correctional Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Erie County Correctional Inmate Search has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find the same information about anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Erie County Correctional Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Erie County Correctional is made up of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you use the telephone so you can 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 will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail will take between 30 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, plan to be discharged that morning.

Erie County Correctional Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Erie County Correctional in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor is required to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Erie County Correctional can change, so call the facility at (716) 937-9101 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Erie County Correctional you have to be on this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Erie County Correctional, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 related to the inmate, this 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 Erie County Correctional. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Erie County Correctional 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 Erie County Correctional. 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 Erie County Correctional 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 an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Erie County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Erie County jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is a matter of public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Erie County Correctional might change, so be sure to visit the Erie County Correctional site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Erie County Correctional

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 Erie County Correctional uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (716) 937-9101 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 Erie County Correctional store. You can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Erie County Correctional inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls may be limited or cut altogether.

The Erie County Correctional phone number is: (716) 937-9101

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all phone calls that inmates make are shared 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 Erie County Correctional. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 significantly on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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