Ontario County Jail

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The Ontario County Jail is located at 3045 County Complex Drive in Canandiagua, NY and is a medium security county jail operated by the Ontario County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Ontario County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Ontario County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much much more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Ontario County Jail
7. How to Send Inmate Care Packages to Ontario County Jail
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Ontario County Jail
10. How to Search Ontario County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and tips that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that would help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Ontario County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ontario County Jail Inmate List is a list of people who have been arrested, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find information for anybody arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to get the information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Ontario County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Ontario County Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you will answer some simple questions, such as your legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID 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 then be allowed to make a phone call so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, it depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if a judge has to determine your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the date of your release, expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Ontario County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list each visitor’s name to the Ontario County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Ontario County Jail change often, so you should call the jail at (585) 396-1800 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Ontario County Jail you must be added to their visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones are allowed at Ontario County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not related to 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Ontario County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ontario 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 Ontario 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 Ontario 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Ontario County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person 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 have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Ontario County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file containing a court docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from another state. You can go to the Ontario County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail could change, so it would be best to double check the Ontario County Jail website when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ontario 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 Ontario County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (585) 396-1800 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 Ontario County Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, 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 sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Ontario County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted 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 every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (585) 396-1800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Ontario County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 is an expert in keeping up 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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