Graham County Detention Center

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The Graham County Detention Center is located at 523 10th Avenue in Safford, AZ and is a medium security county jail operated by the Graham County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything related to the Graham County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Graham County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Graham County Detention Center Inmate Roster is a roster of people who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information on anyone arrested and booked or released within the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get the information faster if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Graham County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Graham County Detention Center takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First you will answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you use the phone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail will take from 10 minutes to all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a discharge date, expect to get released in the morning.

Graham County Detention Center Visitation

Inmates need to list information about each visitor to the Graham County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be put in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide proof of identification. Any visitors showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Graham County Detention Center are always changing, so call the jail at (928) 428-3141 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Graham County Detention Center you must have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be 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 phones at Graham County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Graham County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Graham County Detention Center 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 Graham County Detention Center. 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 Graham County Detention Center 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 for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Graham County jail website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Graham County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Graham County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to the Graham County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Graham County Detention Center inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to double check the Graham County Detention Center site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Graham County Detention Center

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 Graham County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (928) 428-3141 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 Graham County Detention Center store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Graham County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are generally more expensive 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 break the rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (928) 428-3141

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of 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 Graham County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Graham County Detention Center, click the link below.

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