Madera County Jail

---

The Madera County Jail is located at 14191 Road 28 in Madera, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Madera County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Madera County Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Madera County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

Top 10 Searches for Madera County Jail

1. Madera County Jail Information
2. Madera County Jail Inmate Search
3. Madera County Inmate Search in Madera, CA
4. What Are the Visitation Rules for Madera County Jail
5. Madera County Jail Visitation Hours
6. Discount Madera County Jail Inmate Calls
7. Madera County Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Madera County Jail
10. How to Search Madera County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to offer advice and information that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Madera County Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Madera County Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get information on anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information fast if you have their name, birth date, or arrest number.

Madera County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Madera County Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You have to answer some questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take between 15 minutes to many hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate must determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Madera County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide each visitor’s name to the Madera County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor is required to provide identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies change often, so it would be wise to call the official Madera County Jail at (559) 675-7951 before you visit an inmate.

---

Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Madera County Jail you must first be on their approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Madera County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Madera County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Madera 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Madera 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 Madera 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Madera County court website or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Madera County jail, by phone, go there in person, or look 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. These records include a case file that contains a docket and any documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Madera County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Madera County Jail can change at any time, so it would be best to visit the Madera County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Madera 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 Madera County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (559) 675-7951 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 Madera County Jail store. You can buy 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 cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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 Madera County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are typically more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, phone calls could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Madera County Jail phone number is: (559) 675-7951

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Madera County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails 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 facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

2497