Routt County Detention Center

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The Routt County Detention Center is located at 2025 Shield Drive in Steamboat Springs, CO and is a medium security county jail operated by the Routt County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Routt County Detention Center, such as how to locate an inmate at the Routt County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Routt County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Routt County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Routt County Detention Center Inmate Locator is a roster of people currently in custody, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get the same information for anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate the information quicker if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Routt County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Routt County Detention Center takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will answer some basic questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will be released. Also, how fast you get released will depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to determine the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the release date, plan to get discharged in the morning.

Routt County Detention Center Visitation

To have visitors, you must list information about each visitor to the Routt County Detention Center in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be entered in a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Routt County Detention Center are always changing, so call the facility at (970) 879-1090 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Routt County Detention Center you have to have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Routt County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 Routt County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Routt 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 Routt 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 Routt 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Routt County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket and all documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Routt County Detention Center jail inmates change frequently, so check the Routt County Detention Center site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Routt 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 Routt County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (970) 879-1090 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 Routt County Detention Center store. You can purchase several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use 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 inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Routt County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden.

The Routt County Detention Center phone number is: (970) 879-1090

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control 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 Routt County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling 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. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility 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 Routt County Detention Center, click the link below.

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