Butte County Jail Inmate Visitation

Butte County Jail

Address:
7 Gillick Way
Oroville, CA 95965
Phone:
530-538-7471

MALE INMATES - Butte County Jail ON-SITE VISITATION SCHEDULE

• TWO (2) Forty-five minute visits per week, per inmate.
• Visiting is on Saturdays and Sundays ONLY.

FEMALE INMATES - Butte County Jail ON-SITE VISITATION SCHEDULE

• TWO (2) Forty-five minute visits per week, per inmate.
• Visiting is on Saturdays and Sundays ONLY.

Butte County Jail Visitation Application Process

Butte County Jail may requires visitors to fill out an application prior to your visiting an inmate.
Carefully fill out the application. Incomplete paperwork is cause for denial.
Honesty, especially regarding past criminal convictions, probation etc., is important. These things will most likely show up on the background check – which if lied about on the application, will cause visits to be denied.
Call 530-538-7471 to ask specific questions about the application.
Click here to go to the jail's website for more information about the application process. 

Who Can Visit an Inmate in Butte County Jail

Anyone over the age of 18, who isn't on felony probation and can produce a valid government-issued photo ID can be approved to visit an inmate in this jail.
Visitation applicants in Butte County must sometimes submit to a background check. Those with warrants are denied visitation or if allowed to visit, will be arrested at the jail.
Jails limit the number of people that can visit an inmate to two adults each visit.
Children under age 18 must be accompanied by the parent or legal guardian.

Call 530-538-7471 to ask specific questions about this policy or click here for any updates to this policy.
It is likely that the Butte County Jail will deny visitation to anyone with a past felony conviction regardless of probation/parole status.
Call 530-538-7471 prior to arriving for the specific jail guideline regarding your legal status.
If you are a co-defendant with the inmate in a pending case, your visit will be denied.
If you and the inmate are under a court order to have no contact with each other, your visit will be denied.
The Butte County Jail reserves the right to deny any person the right to enter the jail it chooses and for any reason.

Butte County Jail Visitation Dress Code

The Butte County Jail staff reserves the right to turn anyone away who is not dressed appropriately for a visit.
The best way to be sure the visit takes place is to dress as if you are meeting someone's grandmother for the first time. 

• Wear clothes that are not revealing.
• Don't wear see-through material.
• Have all undergarments covered (males and females) and avoid a lot of cleavage.
• Shorts and skirts should reach mid-thigh.
• Sleeves should be at least half-way to your elbow.

The following types of clothing are also prohibited:

• Clothing promoting gang affiliation.
• Anything displaying drugs, weapons or profanity.
• Clothing depicting anything obscene.

Call 530-538-7471 to ask specific questions about the Butte County Jail Visitation Dress Code guidelines.

Butte County Jail Visitation Tips, Rules and Guidelines

Jail visits are conducted in person behind plexi-glass or on a televised screen from another location.
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and guardians must provide proof of their guardianship.
Leave all personal belongings, except for your state ID in your vehicle or in a locker (if one is provided).
Children must be monitored at all times or jail staff will end the visit early.
Call 530-538-7471 or click here to go to the jail's official website for additional Rules regarding Butte County Jail visitation.

PUBLIC VISITING – INMATE RULES
The Sheriff and staff of the Butte County Jail recognize the social and psychological importance of inmates being able to visit with family and friends during their period of incarceration. To optimize the opportunity for inmates to receive visitors, while maintaining inmate safety and facility security, the following policies have been adopted and will be uniformly enforced:
1. Visiting days and hours are posted in each inmate housing unit, and are listed on the jail’s automated telephone service – 530 538-7471. Visiting times may also be found above.
2. The inmate may have two 45 minute visiting periods each week. One visiting period on Saturday and another one on Sunday.
3. Visitors need to register at the West Facility Visiting Center or the Main Jail Lobby (depending upon the inmate’s housing location) prior to the visit. Visitors register by completing an Inmate Visitor Form and presenting the form and a valid, photo identification card issued by an agency of the U.S. Federal or State government, (i.e., state vehicle operator's license, state identification card, military identification card, passport, visa, resident alien identification card, etc.), to the visiting sign-up officer.
4. Visitors must be eighteen (18) years of age unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Proof of relationship or guardianship will be required for all teenage visitors. The watch commander may make exceptions in unusual or special circumstances.
5. Visiting periods start promptly at the assigned times. Visitors are recommended to arrive 20 to 30 minutes prior to the assigned visiting times. They must be registered 15 minutes before the visiting times so that the inmates can be moved to the visiting area. Late registration cannot be permitted. Only the watch commander, under unusual or special circumstances, may authorize visiting at other times.
6. Persons currently on S.W.A.P., E.S.P., Sheriff’s Parole, or having been released from any incarceration within the past thirty (30) days are not allowed to visit.
7. Any persons on active parole or any persons having been convicted of a felony and confined in any state prison in this State will not be allowed upon the grounds of the Butte County Sheriff’s Department without prior written permission from the Jail Commander. A felon entering these premises without prior written consent is in violation of State law, and will be arrested and charges with a felony. (Penal Code 4571)
8. Inmates will submit to a search by correctional staff.
9. Inmates will not take anything to the visiting area except religious materials when visiting with clergy or legal documents or books when visiting with attorneys or investigators.
10. Inmates will leave the visiting areas immediately when directed by the correctional staff.
11. Inmates will remain seated in the designated visiting area unless specifically instructed otherwise by the correctional staff.
12. Inmates will not receive anything from visitors. Inmates will not bring anything back into the correctional facilities from the visiting area without permission of the correctional staff.
13. Inmates that could not receive visits during regular visiting times due to lack of sufficient visiting spaces will be rescheduled after regular visiting times.