The Otter Tail County Detention Center in the city of Fergus Falls serves as the prison for Otter Tail County County and other nearby cities. Otter Tail County Detention Center is a county jail, serving Fergus Falls and surrounding areas. The Otter Tail County Detention Center facility is located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota at 417 S Court St. Be sure to verify that your inmate is at this location before traveling to visit.
More than anything, inmates need contact with their friends and family on the outside. Jails and Prisons don’t make this easy. Many charge inmates up to $14 a minute to make a long-distance phone call. Fortunately, there is an easy way to provide the jail with a local number your inmate can call that will ring your phone and/or those of other family and friends no matter where everyone lives. An inmate can then make their calls using the local number rate while talking to friends and family long distance. This service is provided by Globaltel at Inmate Calls. To send mail to an inmate go to Jail Postcards.
Every jail or prison will have their own unique rules for inmate visitation. Every inmate is informed of these visitation rules and what days and times they are allowed to have visitors. The first step is to get set up with phone service so you can contact your inmate directly and get accurate information about prison visitation. Prisoners are often placed in city jail for pretrial detention. Then they may be transferred back to jail to serve short sentences after trial, or placed in a temporary facility while awaiting transfer to a longer-term prison facility.
Otter Tail County Detention Center is a county jail, so most of the inmates at Otter Tail County Detention Center will be post trial convicts serving medium sentences that that were too long for short term police department jail stays, but not long enough to justify transfer to a Minnesota State prison facility. It’s important for inmates in County jail to have access to commissary funds to buy things like toothpaste and stamps for letters. They will also need funds for phone calls which should be made using a service like Globaltel’s cheaper jail call service at Inmate Calls to avoid long distance charges when making prison calls.
Otter Tail County Detention Center is in the CST time zone. It’s important for families of inmates to help each other with information and tips about the prison facility they are in. You can leave comments and tips below about the best places to stay when visiting your inmate as well comments about any local service organization not already on our list of those available to help local families of inmates. We urge you to add your own comments about Otter Tail County Detention Center below. “