Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility

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The Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility is located at 320 Washington Street in Traverse City, MI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information and advice that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that might be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can find the same information about anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility takes you through each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you must answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take anywhere between 15 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you post bail, the sooner you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to determine your bail amount. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to be discharged in the morning.

Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will go in a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the facility at (231) 922-4531 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility you have to have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anyone under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not 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 younger than 18 years old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grand Traverse 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.

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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 Grand Traverse 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 Grand Traverse 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the Grand Traverse County jail website or you can call the jail 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. You should know 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 a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Grand Traverse County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility jail inmates change frequently, so you should review the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility website before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grand Traverse 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 Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (231) 922-4531 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 Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, 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 items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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 Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone calls may be limited or cut altogether.

Phone Number: (231) 922-4531

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to lower 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, 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 Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility, click the link below.

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