The Ontario County NY Jail in Ontario County serves as a prison facility for the city of Canandaigua and other smaller towns surrounding Ontario. As well as inmates awaiting transfer to other prisons, jails and State penitentiaries. When NY residents are sentenced to a medium prison, they are often sent to Ontario County NY Jail. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. Ontario County NY Jail is located in Canandaigua NY, in the 14424-9505 Zipcode. This is in Ontario County NY. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.
Prisons in NY, like many others these days can make it difficult and costly for inmates to call the outside. This is also true of Ontario County NY Jail. Some charge long distance fees of over $10 a minute making it almost impossible to maintain relationships and family ties. Inmate families have found they can avoid these abusive fees by setting up a local prison phone number that ring their long distance phone. A company called GlobalTel.com provides this service and they can be contacted here:
jail calls. They also provide an easy way to send mail to an inmate. To use their mail service, click here:
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. NY 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
Ontario County NY Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Ontario County NY 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.
Ontario County NY Jail is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Ontario County NY Jail warden is Chief Corrections Ofcr. Alice Haskins. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Ontario County NY Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Ontario County NY Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.