Orange County Jail – Central Jails

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The Orange County Jail – Central Jails is located at 550 North Flower Street in Santa Ana, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything a person needs to know about the Orange County Jail – Central Jails, such as how to find an inmate at the Orange County Jail – Central Jails, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or tips that could be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Orange County Jail – Central Jails Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Orange County Jail – Central Jails Inmate Roster is a roster of individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find the same information for anyone arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to get their inmate information quicker if you’ve got their full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Orange County Jail – Central Jails Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Orange County Jail – Central Jails 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, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a bunch of questions, like what is your legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get out of jail. It also depends on if you’ve got a cash bond or if a judge still needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Orange County Jail – Central Jails Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide information about each visitor to the Orange County Jail – Central Jails in advance. This information will go into a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor must provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at (714) 647-4666 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Orange County Jail – Central Jails you have to first be on this person’s approved 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 at Orange County Jail – Central Jails, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Orange County Jail – Central Jails 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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails. 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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails 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 for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Orange County jail website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have their 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 you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Orange County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket sheet and all of the documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Orange County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to review the Orange County Jail – Central Jails website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Orange County Jail – Central Jails

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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (714) 647-4666 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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Orange County Jail – Central Jails are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. 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 there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (714) 647-4666

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 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 Orange County Jail – Central Jails. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Orange County Jail – Central Jails, click the link below.

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