Garfield County Jail

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The Garfield County Jail is located at 107 8th Street in Glenwood Springs, CO and is a medium security county jail operated by the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Garfield County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Garfield County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give advice and information you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that would help others is much appreciated.

Garfield County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Garfield County Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get info about anybody arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to find their inmate information faster if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Garfield County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Garfield County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will have to answer some questions, such as your full name, your address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged takes from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. It also depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if the judge needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a discharge date, you should expect to get released that morning.

Garfield County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide information about each visitor to the Garfield County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will go in the log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Garfield County Jail are always changing, so it would be wise to call the facility at (970) 945-1377 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Garfield County Jail you have to be added to this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Garfield County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision 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 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 of age and is not related to the inmate, this 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 Garfield County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Garfield 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 Garfield 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 Garfield 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Garfield County court 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 them. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records on the website, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal history. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to the Garfield County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail at the Garfield County Jail can change at any time, so it would be best to double check the Garfield County Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Garfield 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 Garfield County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (970) 945-1377 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 Garfield County Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want 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 a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Garfield County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot 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 bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Garfield County Jail phone number is: (970) 945-1377

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Garfield County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 finding 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. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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