Flathead County Detention Center

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The Flathead County Detention Center is located at 920 South Main Street in Kalispell, MT and is a medium security county jail operated by the Flathead County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Flathead County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

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Who’s In Jail

The Flathead County Detention Center Inmate Roster is an online list of people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting hours. You can find the same information on anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Flathead County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Flathead County Detention Center includes the following steps:

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

First, you must answer some questions, such as your full legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will get to make a phone call to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get released. Also, it might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate must decide on how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Flathead County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to provide information about each visitor to the Flathead County Detention Center in advance. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the visitors log for the inmate. Every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Flathead County Detention Center visitation procedures frequently change, so call the facility at (406) 758-5617 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Flathead County Detention Center you must be on this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Flathead County Detention Center, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. 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 must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of 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 Flathead County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Flathead County Detention Center 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 Flathead County Detention Center. 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 Flathead County Detention Center 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 are able to check the court records on the website or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Flathead County jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Flathead County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail at the Flathead County Detention Center might change, so we suggest that you visit the Flathead County Detention Center site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Flathead County Detention Center

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 Flathead County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (406) 758-5617 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 Flathead County Detention Center store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Flathead County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are typically more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: (406) 758-5617

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all phone calls that inmates make 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 Flathead County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s 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. In some cases, we will not 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 jail 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 Flathead County Detention Center, click the link below.

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