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Essex County Correctional Facility Information

Address

Essex County Correctional Facility
14 North Main Street
Middleton, MA 1949

Phone Number

Phone: (978) 687-7136

The Essex County Correctional Facility is located at 14 North Main Street in Middleton, MA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Essex County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about anything one might want to know about the Essex County Correctional Facility, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

Introduction

This guide is designed to give info you need to make the process easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Essex County Correctional Facility Inmate Search

Do you have a family member or friend that is in jail and don’t know how to contact them? Do you know a family member or friend that’s been arrested and you need to locate them?

To see who is in jail at the Essex County Correctional Facility you need to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Essex County Correctional Facility Inmate Roster is a roster of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes custody status, and visiting hours. You can get information for anybody booked or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information quicker if you have their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Essex County Correctional Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Essex County Correctional Facility 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 a while to get processed.

First you must answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to make a phone call in order to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process takes between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge still needs to determine how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Essex County Correctional Facility Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Essex County Correctional Facility in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Each visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Essex County Correctional Facility can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (978) 687-7136 before you go to the jail to visit.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Essex County Correctional Facility you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Essex County Correctional Facility, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 Essex County Correctional Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Essex County Correctional Facility 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.

Mailing Address

If you would like to send a letter to an inmate at Essex County Correctional Facility, use this address:

Essex County Correctional Facility
14 North Main Street
Middleton, MA 1949

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Essex County Correctional Facility
14 North Main Street
Middleton, MA 1949

The Essex County Correctional Facility mail policy changes frequently, so review the the Essex County Correctional Facility website before you send a letter.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Essex County Correctional Facility. 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 Essex County Correctional Facility 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, you are able to check the arrest warrants online or call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, 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 Essex County jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that contains a docket sheet and all documents filed in your case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Essex County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Essex County Correctional Facility inmates are always changing, so double check the Essex County Correctional Facility site before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Essex County Correctional Facility

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 Essex County Correctional Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (978) 687-7136 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 inmateâ€™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 Essex County Correctional Facility store. Inmates 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 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

All phone calls from the Essex County Correctional Facility are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are typically more expensive 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 inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (978) 687-7136

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make are shared 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 Essex County Correctional Facility. 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate 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 Essex County Correctional Facility, click the link below.

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