Alpena Facility Overview
Alpena County Correctional Facility is operated by the Alpena County Sheriff's Office and is also described on official pages as the Alpena County Sheriff's Office and Jail. For Montmorency County, it is the practical jail facility because the Montmorency sheriff jail page directs users there for housed inmates. The jail holds county-jail detainees, including people awaiting district or circuit court action, local sentenced misdemeanants, warrant holds, and Montmorency County inmates housed by arrangement.
This is not a Michigan Department of Corrections prison. A Montmorency defendant who is sentenced to state prison moves into the MDOC system and is searched through OTIS, not through the county JailTracker roster. Alpena County Correctional Facility remains the right place for local jail matters such as current custody, video visits, inmate mail, bond posting, commissary, and account deposits.
The Alpena jail location page publishes the facility address, building details, and construction facts for the jail serving Montmorency inmates.
The location page confirms that Montmorency visitors are going to the Alpena jail complex for facility business, not to a Montmorency jail building.
Alpena Facility Capacity
The Alpena County jail building was approved by voters in 2017, completed in 2021, and occupied on October 31, 2021. Official location details list 94 inmate beds in the current building, compared with 69 beds in the prior jail. The same source gives the current building size as 28,013 square feet. Population research also found a 2013 Alpena County Jail average daily population of 50 in the Prison Policy Initiative phone-rate appendix, while Montmorency's own 2013 local jail ADP appears as 11 or 12 depending on the source.
No official current Montmorency-only live count was found in the reviewed sources. That gap matters because Montmorency inmates are mixed into the serving facility's custody workflow, while Montmorency records still begin with the local sheriff and courts.
Alpena Facility JailTracker Lookup
The correct online lookup for this facility is the Alpena County Corrections and Jail Current Inmates link, which opens the Public Safety Cloud/JailTracker roster for Alpena County. The researched agency endpoint identifies the roster as Alpena Co MI and permits current-offender listing. JailTracker resources expose result labels for names, book date, release date, booking number, jacket, and facility, plus detail labels for images, cases, charges, holds, special fields, and VINELink when enabled.
- Open the Alpena Corrections and Jail page and choose Current Inmates.
- Browse current offenders if the roster displays them, or enter a last name and optional first name in the search fields.
- Complete CAPTCHA validation if prompted by the public app.
- Open the result details and confirm the facility, booking date, booking number, charges, holds, bond, and release date if visible.
- If the inmate is not listed, check whether the person moved to MDOC, federal custody, ICE custody, or was released.
For a fuller county-wide custody path, the Montmorency County inmate records page explains when to use JailTracker, Montmorency sheriff FOIA, MDOC OTIS, VINELink, BOP, and ICE.
Alpena Facility Contact
Use the corrections option for current custody, visit, mail, bond, and facility questions. Montmorency sheriff records questions still belong with the Montmorency Sheriff's Office, but a person physically held at Alpena follows Alpena jail procedures for facility services.
Alpena County Correctional Facility
4900 M32 W
Alpena, MI 49707
989-354-9830, Option 4 for Corrections
Lobby/general hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
The phone menu also lists Option 7 for the jail nurse. Use that route only for appropriate medical communication and follow staff direction on what can be shared.
Alpena Facility Visits
Alpena County Correctional Facility uses video visitation. Remote visits are available every day, while onsite video visits run during weekday lobby hours and exclude listed holidays. Visitors need state or government photo ID, and visitors under 17 must be accompanied and monitored by an adult. The jail bans personal contact visits, records and monitors visits, and can cancel visits without advance notice for emergencies or security concerns.
| Visit Type | Schedule | Cost / Length | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote/offsite video | Monday-Sunday 6:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. | $0.20 per minute, purchased in 30-minute increments | One remote visit per day per inmate. |
| Onsite video | Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., excluding holidays | Free, 25 minutes | One onsite visit per week. |
| Attorney visits | Not published in reviewed pages | Not published | Contact corrections staff. |
The official Alpena visits page lists the video schedule, visitor conduct rules, dress rules, ID requirement, and holiday limits.
Confirm the visit type before travel, since onsite visits use lobby kiosks and remote visits are handled through the video account system.
Alpena Facility Mail Money
Mail for inmates goes through USPS and uses the inmate's name with the Alpena County Sheriff's Office address. Alpena says no inmate number is needed. Personal mail has no expectation of privacy, incoming mail is opened and inspected, and letters without a return address are discarded. Mail from another inmate or correctional facility is prohibited, as are glitter, stickers, crayon, colored pencil, unknown odor or substance, and extra stamps, envelopes, or paper.
| Service | Provider / Detail | Fee or Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address | Inmate Name, Alpena County Sheriff's Office, 4900 M32 W, Alpena, MI 49707 | No inmate number needed, return address required. |
| Lobby kiosk deposits | Cash or credit/debit for bond or inmate account | $3 cash fee; $3.00 or 10% credit/debit charge. |
| JailATM | Online deposits and bond | Payment fee shown during the transaction. |
| Money order | Accepted by mail to the inmate | No official fee listed. |
| Commissary | Food stuffs, supplies, and other approved items | $150 per week limit. |
| Phone/communications | Combined Public Communications / InmateSales | Use inmatesales.com or 877-998-5678; call pricing not listed in reviewed pages. |
The Alpena commissary page explains JailATM, kiosk deposits, commissary limits, account deductions, and InmateSales contact information.
Check custody and account status before sending money, since booking and warrant fees are paid before commissary spending.
Alpena Facility Bond Fees
Bond information is found under Current Inmates and updates as documentation arrives. Alpena lists PR, NO BOND, CASH ONLY, 10%, and CASH/SURETY as bond types. A PR bond is release on personal recognizance, subject to substance-related holds if applicable. No bond can mean no amount has yet been received from the court or that bond was denied. A 10% bond allows the reflected percentage to be posted, and cash/surety can involve an approved bondsman.
| Item | Amount / Rule |
|---|---|
| Booking fee | $12 each time a person is booked into the Alpena County Jail. |
| Warrant fee | $10 if an arrest warrant was processed or served. |
| Credit/debit bond charge | $2.50 or 10%, whichever is greater. |
| Cash bond transaction fee | $2. |
| Lobby kiosk inmate-account fee | $3 cash fee; $3.00 or 10% credit/debit charge. |
The Alpena bond page explains how to post bond, how third-party depositor paperwork works, and how the Alpena and Montmorency approved bondsman list is handled.
Use the roster and the facility's bond instructions together, since the displayed amount depends on court documentation reaching corrections staff.
Alpena Facility Booking Intake
When a Montmorency arrest results in jail custody, the person may be transported or lodged at Alpena County Correctional Facility. Intake creates the booking record, records identity details, tracks charges, warrants, holds, property, bond status, and the booking number or jacket field used by the roster. JailTracker has an offender image feature when enabled, but the research did not verify that every public profile shows a booking photo.
The facility pages reviewed do not publish pod names, classification rules, or detailed medical screening procedures. They do show a jail nurse phone option and facility imagery for medical areas, booking, prebooking, cells, flex dorm, laundry, kitchen, and main corrections areas. Those details support a local description of the building without inventing programs or security protocols that the jail did not publish.
About Alpena Facility
The current jail replaced an older 69-bed facility and consolidated operations into the new building in 2021. Official details say the building used 49,500 concrete blocks and that 35% of the work was performed by eight Alpena County contractors. No official ACA accreditation status, current overcrowding order, consent decree, or recent local jail litigation involving Montmorency inmates at Alpena was located in the reviewed sources.
Note: Confirm custody, bond, and visit status with Alpena Corrections before traveling or sending money.