Haines Borough Community Jail

Haines Borough Community Jail Inmate Visitation

Friends and Family – This community jail is operated with the Haines Borough Police Department. The visiting schedule at Haines Borough Community Jail is kept off its public pages, and staff share the current days and times only by phone, at 907-766-2121. A public schedule is often never issued when slots belong to one person or unit and privacy and security matter.

How Most Jails Handle a Visit
This is a general list of practices common at most jails. Confirm them for Haines Borough Community Jail.

• Most jails want you to enter with just a photo ID and a vehicle key, and nothing else in your hands.
• Typical check-in requires you to take off outerwear or place a coat or hoodie in a locker.
• People recently released from that jail usually cannot visit without permission from the sheriff or the jail administrator.
• Plan to leave electronics, jewelry, and carrying bags behind, either locked in the car or in a locker on site.

Have the inmate's full name and date of birth, your identification, and a booking number if you know it. Many jails wait from 48 hours up to a week after booking before they assign a visit time; ask when the person will be eligible. State your identity and relationship plainly, then ask in a polite, specific way.

On that call, ask what official identification to present, the allowed length of the visit, what visitors may wear and what they may bring, whether you must register or be on an approved list and how to get added, and when visits are taking place. Also ask if an application or background check must be completed before a visit, whether in-person visits, video visits, or both are in use, whether a child is allowed to visit and what is required, and how far in advance a time must be reserved.

Information on the criminal court process for offenders arrested in Haines Borough Alaska and booked into the Haines Borough Community Jail. From the arrest to the sentencing and everything in between.