Humboldt County Detention Center

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The Humboldt County Detention Center is located at 826 Fourth Street in Eureka, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything related to the Humboldt County Detention Center, such as how to find an inmate at the Humboldt County Detention Center, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that would help others would be appreciated.

Humboldt County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Humboldt County Detention Center Inmate Roster is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including current status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find information about anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to locate the information faster if you enter their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Humboldt County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Humboldt County Detention Center takes you through these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you have to answer some simple questions, like what is your legal name, street address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to make a telephone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process can take from 15 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate still needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be released in the morning.

Humboldt County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to give each visitor’s full name to the Humboldt County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be put in the log as an approved visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so we suggest that you call the official Humboldt County Detention Center at (707) 441-5159 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Humboldt County Detention Center you have to be added to their visitation list.

Be sure to bring 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 Humboldt County Detention Center, 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. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 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 Humboldt County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Humboldt County Detention Center 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 Humboldt County Detention Center. 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 Humboldt County Detention Center 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 arrest warrants on the Humboldt County court 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 inquire at the information desk. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Humboldt County jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Humboldt County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates change frequently, so be sure to review the Humboldt County Detention Center site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Humboldt County Detention Center

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 Humboldt County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (707) 441-5159 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 Humboldt County Detention Center store. You can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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 Humboldt County Detention Center 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 more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or totally denied.

The Humboldt County Detention Center phone number is: (707) 441-5159

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 Humboldt County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Humboldt County Detention Center, click the link below.

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