Sheboygan County Jail

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The Sheboygan County Jail is located at 525 North Sixth Street in Sheboygan, WI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about everything related to the Sheboygan County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that could be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Sheboygan County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Sheboygan County Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people currently in custody, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find info on anyone booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Sheboygan County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Sheboygan County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer a number of questions, such as your legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to use the phone in order to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, 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 know the release date, plan to get discharged that morning.

Sheboygan County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Sheboygan County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Sheboygan County Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the facility at (920) 459-3111 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Sheboygan County Jail you have to first be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Sheboygan County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 the 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Sheboygan County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan 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 an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the website or you can call the jail 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 if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Sheboygan County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that contains a docket and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail might change, so visit the Sheboygan County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (920) 459-3111 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 Sheboygan County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember 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 inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Sheboygan 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 a lot pricier than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (920) 459-3111

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Sheboygan County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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