Mount Crested Butte Police Jail

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The Mount Crested Butte Police Jail is located at 911 Gothic Road in Mount Crested Butte, CO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mount Crested Butte Police Department.

This page tells you information about everything related to the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information and tips that you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Mount Crested Butte Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mount Crested Butte Police Jail Inmate Roster is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including status, and schedule for visitation. You can find the same information on anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Mount Crested Butte Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail takes you through these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, 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 your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

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

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process takes from 15 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on if you have a bond amount or if the magistrate has to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to get released that morning.

Mount Crested Butte Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give information about each visitor to the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor must provide proof of identification. Visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Mount Crested Butte Police Jail at 970-349-6516 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail you have to be on the inmate’s 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 without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Mount Crested Butte Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mount Crested Butte Police 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 Mount Crested Butte Police 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 Mount Crested Butte Police 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Gunnison County court website or you can call the court. You have to have the person’s 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, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Gunnison County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Gunnison County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail change frequently, so you should check the Mount Crested Butte Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mount Crested Butte Police 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 Mount Crested Butte Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 970-349-6516 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 Mount Crested Butte Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Mount Crested Butte Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or totally denied.

The Mount Crested Butte Police Jail phone number is: 970-349-6516

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all 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 Mount Crested Butte Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 lower 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where 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 jail or prison has set their 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 Mount Crested Butte Police Jail, click the link below.

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