Oroville is home to the Butte County Jail. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Oroville and Butte County Courts and courts of other cities in the Butte County area areas. The listed address of Butte County Jail is 35 County Center Dr. This is facility is located in Oroville, CA, 95965-3334. This city is in Butte. Before traveling, you should always call the jail to verify your inmate is still located at this address and that they can receive visitors.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at
inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit
send postcards. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. CA has many types of prison facility. City Jails, County Jails, State Jails and State Penitentiaries will each have their own rules and times for visitation and even rules for sending and receiving inmate mail
Butte County Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Butte County Jail will be treated. Prison is expensive. Even public prison facilities appear to be operating like for-profit prisons these days. Long distance phone calls are a favorite way for jails to make money. Charging inmates for everything from soap to toothpaste is another. Even sending your inmate money to buy these things will come with an added fee. The first thing to do is set up an economical line of communication as suggested above. Then you can communicate with the inmate to discuss a reasonable budget and how the family can work together to pay and keep it.
Butte County Jail is located in the PST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. Butte County Jail has a current occupancy of 587. The total inmate capacity of Butte County Jail is officially 614. The living conditions at facilities like Butte County Jail are often determined by the level of overcrowding. Having to share a bed or having too many inmates in a tight space can lead to conflicts. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Butte County Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Butte County Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.