Hartford County Correctional Center

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The Hartford County Correctional Center is located at 177 Weston Street in Hartford, CT and is a medium security county jail operated by the Hartford County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Hartford County Correctional Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you info that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and any tips or comments that could help others is much appreciated.

Hartford County Correctional Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hartford County Correctional Center Inmate Roster is a roster of people who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. You can also get the same information on anyone booked or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Hartford County Correctional Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Hartford County Correctional Center is made up of each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

You will have to answer some simple questions, like what is your full name, address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail may take between 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to figure out your bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the release date, you should expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Hartford County Correctional Center Visitation

The inmate must give information about each visitor to the Hartford County Correctional Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in a log of approved visitors for the requesting inmate. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Hartford County Correctional Center visitation procedures can change, so you should call the facility at (860) 240-1800 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Hartford County Correctional Center you must first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Hartford County Correctional Center, 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 before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 Hartford County Correctional Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hartford 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 Hartford 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 Hartford 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check court records 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 inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that includes a court docket and all filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Hartford County Correctional Center are always changing, so be sure to check the Hartford County Correctional Center site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hartford 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 Hartford County Correctional Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (860) 240-1800 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 Hartford County Correctional Center store. You can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Hartford County Correctional Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates must 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.

The Hartford County Correctional Center phone number is: (860) 240-1800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make 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 Hartford County Correctional Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out 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 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 in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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