Lookup Alpena County Sheriff's Office & Jail Inmates

Alpena County Sheriff's Office Jail

The Alpena County Sheriff's Office & Jail is operated by the Alpena County Sheriff's Office. The official facility type is county jail and local detention. It holds people arrested in Alpena County by sheriff deputies, City of Alpena police, Michigan State Police, and other local agencies. It also holds people awaiting arraignment, bond, trial, sentencing, or transport, as well as people serving county jail sentences or held on warrants and court orders.

The facility should not be described as a state prison. No MDOC prison, BOP facility, ICE detention center, regional jail, work-release annex, or separate city jail was located inside Alpena County in the official sources reviewed. The City of Alpena Police Department has 24-hour police service from the Alpena Public Safety Facility, but its page does not publish a jail roster or long-term detention operation. Local arrestees should be treated as county-jail custody unless transferred by court or agency action.

Alpena County Jail Capacity

The official county location page says voters approved construction, operation, furnishing, and equipping of a new Alpena County Jail on November 7, 2017. The new facility was completed in 2021, inmates moved in on October 31, 2021, and all sheriff and jail operations now occur there. The county lists 94 inmate beds in the current jail and 69 beds in the old jail. It also lists 28,013 square feet in the new building and 16,500 square feet in the former building.

The county published unusually specific construction details. The building used 49,500 concrete blocks, and 35 percent of the work was performed by eight Alpena County contractors. Public image labels on the jail location page identify booking, prebooking, medical, medical 2, flex dorm, cells, main corrections area, lobby, laundry, and kitchen spaces.

The Alpena County jail location page is the source for the bed count, move-in date, square footage, and published construction images.

The location page is also the best official source for confirming that jail operations moved to the M-32 W facility.

Look Up Jail Inmates

The correct lookup path for this facility is the county jail roster, not MDOC OTIS. Start from the sheriff Corrections & Jail page and choose Current Inmates, or open the Alpena County JailTracker roster directly. The roster is for current local custody. If it does not load, or if a person was just arrested, call the jail at 989-354-9830 and use the corrections option.

1. Open the official Alpena County JailTracker current-inmate roster.
2. Search by last name first, then add the first name if needed.
3. Confirm the agency context is Alpena County, Michigan.
4. Open the matching profile if the roster exposes one.
5. Check charges, bond, booking date, arresting agency, and holds where visible.
6. Use FOIA or the jail phone line for records not shown online.

Alpena Jail Address and Contact

The sheriff and jail campus is west of central Alpena on M-32 W. The sheriff contact page lists the main phone, fax, public hours, and phone-menu options. Option 4 routes to corrections, and Option 7 routes to the jail nurse. Public hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Onsite kiosk visitation hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., excluding holidays.

Visiting Alpena County Jail

Visits at this jail are video and non-contact. The county visit rules require proper state or government-issued photo ID such as a driver's license, foreign ID, or passport. Visitors may not bring personal belongings into the visitation area except picture ID and keys unless the jail allows more. Visitors may be subject to a pat-down search, and refusal means denial of entry. Smoking, food, drugs, and drinks are not allowed. All onsite and offsite visits are recorded and may be monitored.

Holiday rules are specific. If a holiday falls on Sunday, the lobby closes the Monday after. If two holidays fall on Friday and Saturday, the lobby closes Thursday and Friday. If two holidays fall on Sunday and Monday, the lobby closes Monday and Tuesday. Remote visitation remains available during holidays and weekends.

Mail Rules at Alpena Jail

The official inmate mail page says no inmate number is needed. Mail must be sent through USPS and addressed to the inmate name at the Alpena County Sheriff's Office, 4900 M32 W, Alpena, MI 49707. Mail from another inmate or correctional facility is not accepted. Incoming mail is opened and inspected. Letters without a return address are discarded.

Commissary Money and Phone

The county commissary page lists commissary, money, and phone channels. Commissary purchases are limited to $150 per week. Money orders can be mailed to the inmate. The jail lobby kiosk can be used for bond or inmate-account deposits with cash or credit/debit card. JailATM is linked for online deposits and bond. Combined Public Communications and InmateSales.com are linked for inmate communications.

Bond Payments at the Jail

Alpena County's bond page says a person can be bonded out at any time. Bonds may be posted at the sheriff's office or online through JailATM. Credit or debit card bond payments carry a charge of $2.50 or 10 percent, whichever is greater. The bond page also lists a $2 transaction fee for cash. The commissary page lists slightly different kiosk fee wording, so confirm current fee treatment before payment.

Each person booked into the Alpena County Jail receives a $12 booking fee. A $10 warrant fee applies if the arrestee was served when an arrest warrant was processed. The commissary page says booking and warrant fees must be paid in full before funds can be used for commissary items.

Booking and Medical Screening

Alpena County does not publish a step-by-step booking manual, but the county's public building labels and Michigan jail rules show the general process. A local arrest can lead to transport to the jail, prebooking, booking, search and property handling, identity checks, booking fees, medical and mental-health screening, classification, housing, phone access, and court or bond routing. Michigan Administrative Rule R 791.731 requires health screening of all inmates by trained staff designated by the facility administrator.

The sheriff phone menu includes Option 7 for jail nurse, and the public jail slideshow includes medical and medical 2 spaces. Public program detail is thinner. No official jail page was located for GED, vocational training, substance-abuse programming, work release, religious services, grievance deadlines, or reentry partnerships. Contact the jail for current programming and eligibility.

When Inmates Leave Alpena Jail

A person may leave the jail by release on bond, release after court order, completion of a county sentence, transfer to another county, transfer to MDOC after sentencing, or transfer to federal or immigration custody. Once someone enters MDOC custody, search the MDOC OTIS locator. For federal prison, use the BOP inmate locator. For adult immigration detention, use the ICE detainee locator.