Wadena County Detention Facility

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The Wadena County Detention Facility is located at 415 South Jefferson Street in Wadena, MN and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wadena County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything related to the Wadena County Detention Facility, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give advice and information that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a question, just ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that might help others will be appreciated.

Wadena County Detention Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Wadena County Detention Facility Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information on anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to find their inmate information fast if you have their name, birth date, or arrest number.

Wadena County Detention Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Wadena County Detention Facility includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You will have to answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will be allowed to use the phone in order to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it will depend on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to be discharged that morning.

Wadena County Detention Facility Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Wadena County Detention Facility in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Wadena County Detention Facility at (218) 631-7600 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Wadena County Detention Facility you have to have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Wadena County Detention Facility, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Wadena County Detention Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Wadena County Detention 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 Wadena County Detention 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 Wadena County Detention 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 can check court records on the website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Wadena County jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records online, or at the Wadena County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred 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 will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail could change, so we suggest that you double check the Wadena County Detention Facility site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Wadena County Detention 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 Wadena County Detention Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (218) 631-7600 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 Wadena County Detention Facility store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind 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 trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products like 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 Wadena County Detention Facility are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

The Wadena County Detention Facility phone number is: (218) 631-7600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all of the 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 Wadena County Detention Facility. The prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail 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 Wadena County Detention Facility, click the link below.

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