The Yamhill County Jail is a jail facility located in Yamhill County, Oregon.  You can find information about the jail, including the Yamhill County Jail Roster, and Yamhill County Jail mugshots.  The Yamhill County Jail is operated by the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department.  The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for criminal justice in Yamhill County.  Their goal is to provide problem-oriented policing aimed at enhancing public safety for the county’s citizens.  The detention of pre-trial detainees is part of this public safety focus.

Yamhill County is a medium-sized county located in the Willamette Valley.  It is considered part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metropolitan area.  McMinnville is Yamhill County’s county seat.  The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office serves the almost 110,00 residents of the 718 square-mile county.  Cities in Yamhill county include: Amity, Carlton, Dayton, Dundee, Lafayette, McMinnville, Newberg, Sheridan, Willamina, and Yamhill.  There are 100 Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office employees spread over several divisions. The corrections division oversees the care of inmates including operating the correctional facility and the work-release center.  Other employees are responsible for community safety, including offering 24/7 patrols of the unincorporated parts of the county and some contracted cities.

The Yamhill County Sheriff is Pat Garrett. In Oregon, the sheriff is an elected position, which is responsible for general law enforcement activities around the county, as well as handling detentions.   If you have any concerns about an inmate’s incarceration conditions, you can contact the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department.

The Yamhill County Correctional Facility considers itself a community-within-the-community and strives to provide the same types of social services that community members have in the broader community, including: medical care, social programs, educational programs, drugs and alcohol counseling, and commissary services.  However, inmates may lose access to non-necessary services for bad behavior.  In addition, Yamhill County strives to help inmates maintain community ties, when possible.  The Yamhill County Work Release Center is a facility that can hold up to 50 inmates.  Inmates at the Work Release Center live in dormitory style housing, but are released each day to go to their regular jobs, which keeps them connected to the community while incarcerated, allowing inmates to support their families, pay court-ordered restitution, and increasing the likelihood of post-release employment, which reduces the likelihood of recidivism.  In addition, some of these inmates may be assigned to the sheriff’s work crew, which performs community service projects, reducing their sentences in exchange for labor.

Yamhill County Jail Address:

The Yamhill County Correctional Facility is housed at the same facility as the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office. 

The address for the Yamhill County Correctional Facility is:

Yamhill County Correctional Facility
535 NE 5^th Street
McMinnville, OR 97128

The address for the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office is:

Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office
535 NE 5^th Street, Rm 143
McMinnville, OR 97128

Mailing Address:

Yamhill County Jail
535 E 5^th St
McMinnville, OR 97128

Phone number:

(503) 434-7507.  That is the main administrative number for the Yamhill County Correctional Facility, which you can call for inmate information and general inquiries.  Inmates cannot receive phone calls, but can place outgoing phone calls.  These phone calls must be either collect calls or paid for through the inmate’s commissary account.  Although the jail does not have a provision for inmates to receive emergency calls, if you need to contact an inmate in an emergency, you can contact the Yamhill County Correctional Facility at its main number to find out how to relay emergency messages to an inmate.  Other numbers you may find useful include: Jail Records (503) 434-7507 X4490; Work Release Office (503) 434-7507 X4481; Community Corrections (503) 434-7513; Release Office (503) 474-4985; and Court Docketing (503) 434-7530.

Inmate Mailing Address:

Inmate’s Full Name
Yamhill County Jail
535 E 5^th St
McMinnville, OR 97128

Inmates may receive mail through the U.S. Postal Service and through private delivery services.  All incoming mail is subject to search, and outgoing mail may be searched as well.  The jail will have rules about mail.  Generally, inmates can receive written correspondence. If you have questions about whether you can mail specific items to an inmate, please contact the Yamhill County Correctional Facility at its main information line to inquire about jail mailing rules.  You may also be able to arrange for inmates to receive magazines, newspapers, and books, but may need to arrange to have them sent directly from the publisher.

Mail is only received Monday-Fridays and is processed the day it is received and delivered to inmates the following weekday.  All mail must have a legible return address on the outside of the envelope or on the postcard; mail without a legible return address will be destroyed.  There is no inmate-to-inmate mail.

The following items are prohibited in mail: foreign substances, such as bodily fluids, hair, lipstick, perfume, glitter, glue, or paint; sexually explicit drawings; cash, money orders, checks or other forms of currency; unusual stains or odors; stickers, decals, or tape; dried or pressed flowers; plastic postcards or greeting Cards; and contents that describe criminal activity or escape plans.

Yamhill County Jail Roster:

Yamhill County Jail/ Yamhill County Correctional Facility inmates are listed on a facility-specific inmate list.  This is a comprehensive list contains the name, booking date, booking photo, and charges of all inmates in the Yamhill County Correctional Facility.  This list also contains bail information. It does not contain additional identifying information, unlike some other systems which allow you to use different types of information including name, birthdate, and social security number to find inmates matching that information.  This means that it may be difficult to differentiate inmates from others simply by looking at the information contained on the inmate list without referring to the photo.

However, the list is simply the first-level of Yamhill County inmate information. If you click on an individual inmate’s name or booking photo, it pulls up a more complete inmate record.  That record includes the inmate’s date of birth, a brief physical description, a list of the current charges against the inmate, and a larger image of the inmate’s booking photo.  This allows you to not only determine if a particular person is incarcerated at the Yamhill County Correctional Facility, but also to find out when he or she was incarcerated, the charges against them, and other basic identifiers.

Not all Yamhill County detainees are county detainees; they may also be in jail as a result of an immigrations or custom violation and be in the custody of ICE.  To find an inmate located within the ICE system, you can use the ICE inmate locator service.

Yamhill County Jail Inmate Search:

Yamhill County Jail inmate locator lists all inmates on a single alphabetized list, which means it does not have the same search function as other systems, where you may be able to use the inmate’s name, date of birth, social security number, or other identifier to search and pull up a single record.  However, because the roster is alphabetized, it easy to locate inmates.  You can also easily use your computer’s “find” function, which is usually accessed with the shortcut key function CNTL + F, to search for the inmate by first or last name, booking date, release date, charges against them, or the release date.  For more detailed information about an inmate, please click on individual records.

Arrest Records:

The Yamhill County Jail/ Yamhill County Correctional Facility has booking photos available for all of the inmates in its system; you can find them using the Yamhill County Jail Inmate Search system.  To see larger versions of booking photos, you must click to expand and inmate’s individual record.  You may also want to go the Yamhill County Crime Report’s page.  This page has neighborhood-specific information on crime in the Yamhill County region.  You can search this information by looking at the map or by searching for a specific city, suburb, or other region name.  Yamhill County also maintains a Most Wanted List, which can tell you information about individuals wanted in connection to crimes in Yamhill County.  Yamhill County maintains a Facebook page with individuals wanted for questioning in connection with crimes, who were caught on security cameras but not yet identified.  If you need information on a former inmate that is not found in one of these systems, you may fill out and submit a public records request. 

Yamhill County Jail Mugshots:

The Yamhill County Jail/ Yamhill County Correctional Facility has booking photos available for all of the inmates in its system; you can find them using the Yamhill County Jail Inmate Search system.  You can see thumbnails of the inmate’s mugshots on the general inmate list; to see larger versions of the booking photos, you must click to expand and inmate’s individual record.   This provides access to mugshots for inmates currently incarcerated in the Yamhill County Correctional Facility.  To find out how to access mugshots for prior inmates or for arrestees who may not be incarcerated, contact the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department.

Visitation:

Even though it is a smaller jail facility, visitation rules at the Yamhill County Jail/ Yamhill County Correctional Facility are fairly rigid.  In fact, it is one of the few facilities that bans child visitors.  In addition, as with all jail facilities, visitors who fail to comply with visitation rules not only risk being asked to leave that visitation session, but also risk losing all visitation privileges.

The following is an overview of the Yamhill County Correctional Facility’s Visitation Rules.

-Only adult visitors; no one under 18 years of age is permitted into the facility.  This rule applies to minors who are family members as well as non-related minors.
-All visitors must be on the inmate’s approved visitor list.
-The inmate may only have five visitors on the approved visitor list.
-Visitors currently on some type of community supervision, such as probation or parole, must have written permission from their parole or probation officer in order to visit the jail facility.
-Jail visits must be scheduled online or at the kiosk in the jail’s lobby.
-Visitors must have an email address to schedule visitations or contact the Visitor Support Line at 1-855-208-7389.
-Register for visits at https://yamhillcountyor.gtlvisitme.com.
-Visitors should arrive early for visits; any late visitors will have their visitations canceled.
-All visitors must have valid picture identification.
-Visitors cannot take any items into the visiting room with them; there are lockers provided for storing personal items such as purses, wallets, and cell phones.  These lockers require a quarter to operate.  The quarter is refundable.
-Visitors must wear appropriate clothing.
-Visitation is by cell block.
-Visits must be canceled at least 12 hours prior to visitation.  Failure to comply with this rule could result in suspension or termination of a visitor’s visitation privileges.
-Absolutely no animals are allowed at visitation; this includes service animals for individuals who use them.  Any questions about this policy should be addressed directly to the jail, to determine whether any arrangements can be made for housing or supervising necessary service animals during visitation.
-To arrange visits that fall outside of these rules, the inmate can ask the jail about arranging a special visitation; visitors, even those on the approved list, cannot schedule special visitations.

The jail does not provide general online visitation hours, because visitation hours vary by jail cell and are subject to change.  However, this is not a problem because all visits need to be scheduled beforehand.  When scheduling a visit, you will select the inmate’s name, and only available visitation times will be displayed.  You can find more detailed information about registering for visitation and scheduling visits at Yamhill County Correctional Facility’s guide to Online Visitation Scheduling and Registration. 

Inmate Phone Privileges:

Inmates cannot receive incoming phone calls.  Inmates have access to phones for outgoing phone calls.  These phone calls must be collect calls or pre-paid phone calls.   Jail phone calls are monitored and may be recorded.  Any attempt to call transfer or conference call will result in the call being disconnected.

The inmate phone system is GlobalTel Link; you may reach them at 1-877-650-4249 or on their website http://www.gtl.net.  In addition to receiving deposits on their GlobalTel Link accounts, inmates may purchase debit time from commissary if they have funds on their inmate account.

Inmate Trust Accounts / Commissary:

The Yamhill County Correctional Facility uses Inmate Commissary Accounts for inmates to purchase items from the commissary or to make phone calls. Yamhill County Jail does not accept cashier’s checks or money orders for inmate accounts.  All inmate commissary account deposits are now handled by TouchPay Payment Systems.  These deposits can be made by phone, internet, or by using the TouchPay Kiosk in the visitor’s lobby.  To make phone deposits, call TouchPay at 1-866-232-1899.  To make internet deposits, go to http://touchpaydirect.com.  For cash deposits, visit the lobby kiosks.  The lobby kiosks also accept Visa and MasterCard.

Yamhill County Bail Information:

The Yamhill County Correctional Facility also uses TouchPay to process bail.  To post bail during business hours, which are M-F, 8:00AM-Noon and 1:00PM- 5:00PM, you can go to the Trial Court Clerk’s Office, which is located in Room 135 of the Yamhill County Courthouse.  After business hours, you can post bail using the TouchPay kiosk, online, or by phone.  Additional charges will apply for using phone or internet bail services.  If an inmate has a hold in another county, Yamhill County will accept bail money for that county.  However, Yamhill County cannot accept municipal court bail; bail for municipal courts can be posted at that specific court, online, or by phone. 

Conclusion

Yamhilll County Correctional Facility is the jail facility for Yamhill County, Oregon and is managed by the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department.  The Yamhill County Correctional Facility holds both pre-trial and some post-conviction detainees in Yamhill County.  It maintains a very detailed inmate roster that includes the booking photos or mugshots for people detained in Yamhill County Jail, as well as other information about these detainees, including the charges against them, bail information, and their release dates.  Yamhill County Jail is unusual because it does not allow minors to visit inmates at the jail.  However, it does have a user-friendly inmate visitation scheduling system.