Lake County Jail

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The Lake County Jail is located at 106 4th Avenue E in Polson, MT and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Lake County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Lake County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the info that you’ll need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to others is much appreciated.

Lake County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lake County Jail Inmate Roster is a list of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get the same information on anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Lake County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Lake County Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge has to figure out how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, expect to be discharged that morning.

Lake County Jail Visitation

The inmate need to provide information about each visitor to the Lake County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. Each visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so we suggest that you call the jail at (406) 883-7301 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Lake County Jail you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Lake County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to the inmate, the minor 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 Lake County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lake County Jail 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 Lake County Jail. 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 Lake County Jail 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 inquiry on the website or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are 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 all of the documents and filings filed in your case. You can access court records on the website, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to the Lake County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail can change at any time, so be sure to double check the Lake County Jail website before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lake County Jail

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 Lake County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (406) 883-7301 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 Lake County Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely 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 the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Lake County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (406) 883-7301

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Lake County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we won’t 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 or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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