Marquette County Jail

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The Marquette County Jail is located at 236 West Baraga Avenue in Marquette, MI and is a medium security county jail operated by the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Marquette County Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation is welcome.

Marquette County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Marquette County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of people who are in jail, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information about anybody processed or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Marquette County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Marquette County Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first step is that you must answer a bunch of questions, such as your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you make a phone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Marquette County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s full name to the Marquette County Jail in advance. Your visitors will be entered in the visitation log as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Marquette County Jail frequently change, so it would be wise to call the official Marquette County Jail at (906) 225-8435 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Marquette County Jail you have to be added to their 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 phones are allowed at Marquette County Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Marquette County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Marquette 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 Marquette 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 Marquette 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 might have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Marquette County jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and any of the documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at the Marquette County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to the Marquette 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.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail is likely to change, so be sure to check the Marquette County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Marquette 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 Marquette County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (906) 225-8435 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 Marquette County Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Marquette County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden.

The Marquette County Jail phone number is: (906) 225-8435

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls 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 Marquette County 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 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison 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 Marquette County Jail, click the link below.

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