Grand Forks County Correctional Center

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The Grand Forks County Correctional Center is located at 1701 North Washington in Grand Forks, ND and is a medium security county jail operated by the Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Grand Forks County Correctional Center, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Grand Forks County Correctional Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grand Forks County Correctional Center Inmate Search is a list of people who have been arrested, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find info about anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate their arrest information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Grand Forks County Correctional Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Grand Forks County Correctional Center includes these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will allow you to make a telephone call so you can contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail takes between 10 minutes to all day long. So, the faster you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the judge must figure out the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to be released that morning.

Grand Forks County Correctional Center Visitation

The inmate must provide each visitor’s name to the Grand Forks County Correctional Center in advance of the visit. This information will be put in the log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor is required to provide identification. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Grand Forks County Correctional Center frequently change, so you should call the facility at (701) 780-8224 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Grand Forks County Correctional Center you have to first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Grand Forks County Correctional Center, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 under the age of 18 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 Grand Forks County Correctional Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grand Forks County Correctional 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 Grand Forks County Correctional 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 Grand Forks County Correctional 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Grand Forks County court website or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Grand Forks County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive 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 DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail is likely to change, so check the Grand Forks County Correctional Center site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grand Forks County Correctional 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 Grand Forks County Correctional Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (701) 780-8224 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 Grand Forks County Correctional Center store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items 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

All phone calls from the Grand Forks County Correctional Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden.

The Grand Forks County Correctional Center phone number is: (701) 780-8224

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from 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 Grand Forks County Correctional Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to lower 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where 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 calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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