Pine County Jail

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The Pine County Jail is located at 635 Northridge Drive NW in Pine City, MN and is a medium security county jail operated by the Pine County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you all the information about everything a person needs to know about the Pine 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 much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give advice and information you need to make going to jail easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Pine County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Pine County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes current status, and schedule for visitation. You can find information on anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their inmate information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Pine County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Pine County Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you have to answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to use the phone in order to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get let go. Also, it will depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must determine your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a discharge date, plan to get discharged that morning.

Pine County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Pine County Jail in advance of the visit. This information will go into the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies change often, so call the official Pine County Jail at (320) 629-8400 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Pine County Jail you must first be on the inmate’s approved 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.

No phones are allowed at Pine County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If the 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Pine County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Pine 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 Pine 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 Pine 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants online or you are able to 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 you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a court docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to the Pine County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Pine County Jail website when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Pine 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 Pine County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (320) 629-8400 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 Pine County Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely 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 inmates can buy if they have enough money in their 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Pine County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are generally pricier than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: (320) 629-8400

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of 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 Pine County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 figuring out 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 significantly 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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