Yolo County Jail

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The Yolo County Jail is located at 2420 East Gibson Road in Woodland, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Yolo County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Yolo County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or tips that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Yolo County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Yolo County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals currently in custody, including current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get info on anybody booked or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information faster if you enter the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Yolo County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Yolo County Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer some simple questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you use the telephone so you can talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process can take from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge has to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Yolo County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Yolo County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be put in the visitation log as an approved visitor. Each visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Yolo County Jail visitation procedures change often, so call the facility at (530) 668-5245 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Yolo County Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Yolo County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can 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 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Yolo County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Yolo 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 Yolo 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 Yolo 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the court records on the Yolo County court website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Yolo County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to the Yolo County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Yolo County Jail is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Yolo County Jail website when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Yolo 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 Yolo County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (530) 668-5245 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 Yolo County Jail store. You can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, 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 enough money in their commissary 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Yolo County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Yolo County Jail phone number is: (530) 668-5245

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Yolo 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 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 any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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