Grant County Detention Center

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The Grant County Detention Center is located at 209 North Black Street in Silver City, NM and is a medium security county jail operated by the Grant County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything related to the Grant County Detention Center, such as how to locate an inmate at the Grant County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information that you’ll need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Grant County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grant County Detention Center Inmate Search is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find info about anybody processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Grant County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Grant County Detention Center is made up of the following steps:

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

First you will have to answer some questions, like what is your legal name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you make a telephone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. The discharge process will take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Grant County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s name to the Grant County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Grant County Detention Center frequently change, so we suggest that you call the official Grant County Detention Center at (575) 534-3803 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Grant County Detention Center you have to have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones at Grant County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Grant County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants online or call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at the Grant County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to the Grant County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates can change at any time, so be sure to check the Grant County Detention Center website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grant 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 Grant County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (575) 534-3803 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 Grant County Detention Center store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Grant County Detention Center are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions 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 rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (575) 534-3803

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the 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 Grant County Detention 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to lower 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison 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 Grant County Detention Center, click the link below.

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