Glenn County Jail

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The Glenn County Jail is located at 141 South Lassen Street in Willows, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Glenn County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Glenn County Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info that you need to make the process easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and also any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Glenn County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Glenn County Jail Inmate List has information about people who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get information for anyone processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Glenn County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Glenn County Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer a number of questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the phone in order to contact family, friends, or loved one.

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

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged will take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster you post bail, the sooner you can get released from jail. It also might depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the release date, you should plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Glenn County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Glenn County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be entered into the visitation log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

The Glenn County Jail visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the jail at (530) 934-6428 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Glenn County Jail you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Glenn County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If a 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Glenn County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Glenn 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 Glenn 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 Glenn 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 believe you have a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Glenn County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to the Glenn County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail change frequently, so be sure to review the Glenn County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Glenn 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 Glenn County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (530) 934-6428 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 Glenn County Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, 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 account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Glenn County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are much more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (530) 934-6428

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, 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 Glenn County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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