Ottertail County Detention Facility

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The Ottertail County Detention Facility is located at 416 Mill Street in Ottertail, MN and is a medium security county jail operated by the Ottertail County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Ottertail County Detention Facility, such as how to find an inmate at the Ottertail County Detention Facility, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find Ottertail County court records, and much much more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Ottertail County Detention Facility
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Ottertail County Detention Facility
10. How to Search Ottertail County Arrest Records

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a question, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that could be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Ottertail County Detention Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ottertail County Detention Facility Inmate Lookup is an online list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and schedule for visitation. You can get the same information about anyone booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information fast if you enter their full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Ottertail County Detention Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Ottertail County Detention Facility takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you 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 have to answer some questions, such as your legal name, address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge must decide on your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get 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, you should expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Ottertail County Detention Facility Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Ottertail County Detention Facility in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so make sure that you call the jail at (218) 998-8556 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Ottertail County Detention Facility you must first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Ottertail County Detention Facility, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Ottertail County Detention Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ottertail County Detention Facility 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility. 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility 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 check the arrest warrants inquiry online or 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 the officer in charge. You should be clear that there is an outstanding 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, and their arrest date, contact the Ottertail County jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access your court records online, or at the Ottertail County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail might change, so you should visit the Ottertail County Detention Facility website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ottertail County Detention Facility

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 Ottertail County Detention Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (218) 998-8556 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility store. You can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products like 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (218) 998-8556

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility. 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 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 figuring 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. 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 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 Ottertail County Detention Facility, click the link below.

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