Charlevoix County Jail Inmate Lookup

Charlevoix County Jail Overview

Charlevoix County Jail is operated by the Charlevoix County Sheriff's Office. The facility is listed at 1000 Grant St., Charlevoix, MI 49720, with the main jail phone at 231-547-4461 and jail fax at 231-237-0442. The sheriff's office and jail share the Grant Street location, while the county courts are at 301 State St., so visitors should distinguish the jail destination from the courthouse destination.

The jail holds local arrestees, pretrial detainees, people serving county jail sentences, and short-term holds before release or transfer. The sheriff page states that the office has responsibility for the care and custody of incarcerated individuals in the Charlevoix County Jail. The City of Charlevoix Police Department also states that all prisoners are housed at the county jail and directs inmate-information questions to 231-547-4461, which confirms that the county seat does not operate a separate city jail roster.

The official Corrections Division page shows the jail's 24/7 operation, visitation schedule, visitor rules, and phone-service notes. The screenshot below is included because it is the closest official Charlevoix County source to a jail-information page; it is not an online current-inmate roster.

The Corrections Division page is useful for visiting and contact rules, but custody confirmation still requires the jail phone line, Michigan VINE, or a records request when the question goes beyond basic status.

Capacity and Historical Population

The sheriff's current jail page does not publish a daily population count or a current official capacity statement. The best sourced facility statistics in the research set come from Vera Institute of Justice Incarceration Trends data for Charlevoix County. In the 2019 county row, Vera lists a rated capacity of 89 beds and a total jail population of 49. The same row reports 16 people in pretrial custody and 33 in sentenced custody. These are historical research figures, not a live headcount.

Vera's 2019 row also shows no people held from BOP, ICE, the Marshals Service, or BIA in the listed federal-agency fields. That supports the county facility map finding: Charlevoix County has one local county jail, with no state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center physically located in the county.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Charlevoix County Jail

No official sheriff-hosted Charlevoix County Jail roster was found. For current custody, start with the jail phone line and then use custody-status and public-record channels as needed. Michigan VINE can help with custody status and notifications, but it does not replace a full booking sheet or jail record. If the person has moved into state prison custody, switch to MDOC OTIS instead of continuing to search the county jail path.

1. Call Charlevoix County Jail at 231-547-4461 and provide the person's full name and date of birth if known.
2. Use Michigan VINE for custody-status lookup and notification enrollment.
3. Search MiCOURT Case Search or local court dockets when charges, arraignment, or case status matter.
4. Submit the sheriff's FOIA request form for a booking record, booking photo, incident report, or other law-enforcement record.
5. Use MDOC OTIS, the BOP locator, or ICE ODLS only when the custody type has moved outside local county jail custody.

Address, Phone, and Hours

The jail and sheriff administration share a single public contact point. The jail operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while the sheriff administration office is posted as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For emergency or non-emergency dispatch routing, the sheriff page lists 911 or 1-800-577-1911.

Visitation Schedule and Rules

Charlevoix County Jail allows male and female inmate visitation every day except Tuesday. Visits are 20 minutes. Each inmate may have three adult visitors of their choosing. If two or more authorized visitors appear for the same visit, the visit still counts as one 20-minute visit. Visitors may visit once per week, measured Sunday through Saturday.

Visitors must be at least 17 unless they are the inmate's biological child, legal step-child, or sibling and are listed under the jail's child-visitor rules. Temporary IDs and non-photo driver's licenses must be paired with other photographic identification. Cameras and cellular phones are prohibited in the visitation area. The dress code bars see-through clothing, tube or halter tops, clothing that exposes undergarments, shorts or skirts more than three inches above the knee, extreme form-fitting outerwear such as leggings or unitards, extremely loose clothing, and obscene or inflammatory words or symbols. Footwear is required.

Mail, Phone, and JailATM

Mail for someone housed at Charlevoix County Jail should use the inmate's name followed by Charlevoix County Jail, 1000 Grant St., Charlevoix, MI 49720. Corrections staff screen mail before delivery. Envelopes with drawings, lipstick, messages, stickers, or similar markings on the outside are returned. Soft-cover books, magazines, and newspapers must come directly from a publisher or company, not from a window drop-off, except that soft-cover religious books such as a Bible may be accepted. Lewd or lascivious photographs and Polaroids are not allowed.

The current Corrections Division page names NCIC Inmate Communications for friends-and-family prepaid calling. Each inmate receives telephone access after booking, and phones are available in the housing areas. Incoming calls are not accepted except voicemail messages to approved inmates. Calls are billed per minute with no connection fee, international calls are billed per minute, and three-way calls are prohibited.

Booking, Intake, and Bond Check-In

After a local arrest, the person may be transported to Charlevoix County Jail for booking. Public sources do not publish a detailed local intake manual, but the jail and court materials show the main steps: identity confirmation, booking information, property and money handling, booking photo and fingerprints when required by Michigan law, medical or security screening, phone access after booking, housing assignment, and court processing through arraignment.

The sheriff trust-account page gives a specific money-handling detail: cash and coins on the person are processed through the booking kiosk and posted to the inmate's account. The same page says inmates may use trust funds for commissary, phone time, fines and costs, or bonds. Before posting bond at the lobby, the county instructs visitors to check in first at the jail receptionist's window. Call 231-547-4461 before traveling to confirm custody, bond amount, accepted payment route, and whether another agency hold blocks release.

Jail Garden and Local Programs

The Jail Garden is the most specific public program detail found for Charlevoix County Jail. The sheriff's Jail Garden page says the program began in 2010 with a $500 starter-plant investment that included potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, cucumbers, peppers, beans, and cabbage. Vegetables grown for inmate meals can be used fresh or prepared and frozen for later use.

The county reports that trustees and inmates maintain the garden by weeding, watering, and tending plants daily. The 2021 figures are substantial for a small county jail: 18,945.44 pounds of fresh healthy food and approximately $28,193.31 in savings. Other publicly documented local services include phone access after booking, commissary ordering by phone, and the limited religious-book window exception under the mail rules. Detailed medical, mental-health, grievance, accreditation, or reentry-vendor information was not located in the public jail pages, so those questions should go directly to the jail.

Directions and Visitor Notes

Charlevoix County Jail is at 1000 Grant St. in the City of Charlevoix. Major approaches into the county generally involve US-31 along the Lake Michigan shoreline and M-66 or M-75 routes into the Charlevoix and Boyne City area. The courthouse and prosecutor are at 301 State St.; jail visitors, bond payers, and people with inmate-service questions should confirm whether their destination is the jail or the court before leaving.

Official sources did not publish a visitor-parking map, public-transit route, or ADA entrance detail for the jail. Confirm visitor parking, transportation options, and accessibility needs with the jail at 231-547-4461 before travel, especially from Beaver Island or other outlying parts of Charlevoix County. The building is also used for public services such as fingerprinting and PBT testing, so visitors may see non-inmate public traffic in the lobby.