Montmorency County Jail

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The Montmorency County Jail is located at 11045 M-32 West in Atlanta, MI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about everything related to the Montmorency County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Montmorency County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find Montmorency County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and advice that you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might help others would be appreciated.

Montmorency County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Montmorency County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get information about anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Montmorency County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Montmorency County Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer some basic questions, such as your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get released. Also, it will depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge still needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, expect to get discharged in the morning.

Montmorency County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to give each visitor’s name to the Montmorency County Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be put into a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Montmorency County Jail can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (989) 785-2582 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Montmorency County Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Be 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 phones are allowed at Montmorency County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Montmorency County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Montmorency 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 Montmorency 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 Montmorency 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 think you might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Montmorency County jail website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Montmorency County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal background. These databases are all connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail might change, so it would be best to check the Montmorency County Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Montmorency 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 Montmorency County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (989) 785-2582 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 Montmorency County Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use 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 products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These products 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

The only phone calls that Montmorency County Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are typically more expensive than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone privileges may be limited or cut altogether.

The Montmorency County Jail phone number is: (989) 785-2582

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Montmorency County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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