The Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is the main jail in Nevada County California. While the police in the cities and towns in Nevada County can arrest and detain offenders, the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is the facility that is accredited by California to hold inmates for more than 72 hours.
The Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is located at:
925 Maidu Avenue
Nevada City, CA 95959
It can be reached 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by calling 530-265-1291.
The main reason that people call 530-265-1291 is to find out if a particular person is in custody, although you can look up an inmate online by going here. You can also get answers to whatever questions about an inmate, and the services for Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility that you may have by clicking on any of the questions below:
How to search for an inmate?
Can you look up an inmate’s mugshot?
How do you look up an offender’s criminal charges, bond or inmate number?
How do you visit an inmate?
What are the visitation hours?
Can you visit inmates in Nevada County by video from home?
How do you get phone calls from an inmate?
Can you send mail, books, or newspapers to an inmate?
How do you send an inmate money?
Does Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility have inmate commissary?
Can an inmate receive and/or send email or text messages?
Do inmates in Nevada County have access to computers or tablets?
How do you pay an inmate’s bail or bond?
Every year the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility has approximately 5660 bookings, with a daily average of 283 inmates and maintains control of the facility with a staff of 70.
Inmates in this jail range from low level misdemeanor offenders to those being held and awaiting trial for violent crimes like robbery, rape, and murder. Therefore, given the mix of potentially dangerous inmates, the security level is very high.
The Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art locking system, closed circuit cameras covering every area where inmates are located, and jail staff that utilize a communication system that keeps each of the guards and civilian staff in constant contact.
Guards that circulate in the same general area of the inmates are armed with eye-blinding mace that will turn an inmate having a violent outburst into a weeping child. They also carry stun weapons, short clubs, flashlights that have dual use as both a light source and as a weapon, and handcuffs. Guards at entrances and in areas not frequented by inmates are armed with various firearms. The goal of such tight security is to keep both the staff and the inmates safe.
Go to this page for other jails in Nevada County, jails in neighboring counties, and local police jails and juvenile detention centers for young offenders under age 18 in this county.
Unlike the California Department of Corrections, where inmates are sent once convicted of a crime and sentenced to a period of more than a year, the Nevada County Jail System is populated by short-term offenders; those who have just been arrested and awaiting to be bonded out by friends or family, those who cannot afford or get bailed and are awaiting trial, or those who have already been convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of less than one year. Many of the latter inmates become ‘workers’, who can reduce their sentence by performing jail maintenance or working in the kitchen. An upside to being a worker is they also get paid a small stipend so when they get released, they have a few dollars in their pocket.
When an inmate is convicted and sentenced to a year or more, they are transferred to the California Department of Corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Inmates that are convicted of a misdemeanor and/or sentenced to less than one year of a state crime serve their time in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
Illegal immigrants convicted of a state or federal crime will first do their time, then may be transferred into ICE custody for deportation.
To Bail out or Post Bond for an Inmate in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility follow these steps:
For complete Instructions on How to Bail or Bond an Inmate in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, check out our Inmate Bail page.
How to Make a Deposit for Phone, Email or Visitation using GettingOut.com
Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility uses GettingOut for some or all of its communication services with an inmate.
If you want to deposit money using this company for your use or your inmate's account, there are four ways to do it:
For all the information you need to know, including tips, guidelines and warnings about depositing money in a Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility inmate's account for communication services, check out our Send Money page.
To find out how to get access to a tablet for inmate read the following:
1. First, Register or Sign In to GettingOut/GTL
2. Purchase the services you want for your Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility inmate.
3. All inmates have free access to the tablets to read their letters from family & friends, but there are many other services available to keep your inmate busy while incarcerated... such as Games, Books, Music and Movies. These other services come with fees that you can pay for when you pay for phone service.
To learn more about Tablet Rentals for inmates, including the cost, all the services available and everything else you need to know, check out our Tablet Rental Page.
To mail or email an inmate in Nevada County follow these steps:
When mailing a letter or postcard to an inmate, please follow these instructions:
Emailing Messages & Photos
Facility_name_1} contracts with GTL GettingOut, the same service that handles iInmate Phone Systems and Video Visitation, for sending secure messages and photos between you and your inmate.
If you are not already registered, do so here, or Log in.
Then use the Facility Finder to:
1. Select Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility,
2. Add your inmate to your list of contacts,
3. Add a credit or debit card to cover your costs.
Customer Service Questions
'Online' Contact Form, or
Call 866-516-0115
Go here to this FAQ to get answers to how the transition to ViaPath from GTL and gettingout will affect your account.
All the information you need to understand mail and email policies for Nevada County can be found on our Inmate Mail Page and our Text/Email an Inmate Page.
To visit an inmate in Nevada County, whether by video or in person 'at the jail', follow these steps:
Other than 'at the jail' visits between you and your inmate, which is explained and outlined in detail on our Visit Inmate Page, Nevada County remote video inmate visitation can be done using the services of GettingOut.
There are three ways to remotely visit your inmate in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility:
1. Using the GettingOut Kiosk at the jail.
2. Using your computer from home.
3. Using your phone on the GettingOut apps.
To remotely visit an inmate in Nevada County follow these steps:
1. Start by confirming that Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility's Video Visitation is working correctly by looking up Nevada County here.
2. The next step is to create an account here for GettingOut.
3. Then add funds to your account.
4. Last, select Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, and then the inmate you wish to communicate with.
Other Nevada County Services provided by GettingOut:
- Phone Calls & Voicemail
- Email, Photo & Video Sharing
- Inmate Tablet Rental
- Deposits
Customer Service
If you have any questions about the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility Visitation Services you can call them at 866-516-0115.
Frequently Asked Questions
* All the information you need to have complete knowledge about inmate visitation; policies, rules, fees, schedules, tips, dress codes, and children, lawyers and clergy visitation in Nevada County, can be found on our Visit Inmate Page.
Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility Phone: 530-265-1291
To receive phone calls from inmates in Nevada County, or to assist them in making phone calls to other people, follow these steps:
1. Start by confirming that Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility has the phone service you need to communicate with your inmate by the facility lookup here.
2. In the meantime, you can create an account here for GettingOut.
3. Then add funds to your account. This account can be controlled by just you, or by both you and your inmate.
4. Last, select Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, and then the inmate you wish to communicate with.
Nevada County Services that are provided by GettingOut, a GTL company:
- Phone Calls & Voicemail
- Video Visits (from home or jail lobby)
- Email & Photo Sharing
- Tablet Rental
- Deposits
Phone & Voicemail Fees
1. GettingOut charges $0.25 per minute for all phone calls, prepaid or collect, within California.
2. Prepaid calls between California and other states costs $0.21 per minute. International calls are $0.95 per minute.
3. There is a fee of $3.00 every time you add money to your account online, and it costs $5.95 if you add funds over the phone with a live agent.
4. You can also leave an inmate a short voice message for a flat fee of $1.25.
Note: Rates are subject to change.
Types of Phone Calls
Collect Calls
Collect calls allow you to accept and pay for calls to your land line (only) phone account. This means that if you accept your call from your inmate, all the charges for that call will then be billed to your land line phone account and will show up and be listed on your next local phone bill. Additional fees, costs, restrictions may apply.
Prepaid calls (Direct Calls)
With Prepaid Calls you can set up your account so that the inmate can only call you and/or you can just deposit money in their account and they can purchase prepaid phone cards through their commissary and call whoever they choose, provided the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility approves of the phone number.
Quick Connect
Quick connect is an alternative to collect calls. It allows you to quickly pay for a phone call with your credit card. When your inmate calls you, follow the instructions from the automated voice system to pay for that one phone call, directly billed to your card.
Customer Service
If you have any questions about the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility GettingOut phone services, you can call them at 866-516-0115.
* All the information you need to understand making and receiving phone calls with inmates in Nevada County, can be found on our Inmate Phone Page.
To deposit money into the account of an inmate in Nevada County, follow these instructions:
For all the information you need regarding making an inmate deposit, what it costs, how much you can send, how long it takes for your inmate to receive funds and more, and to get the Facility Locator Number, check out our Send Money Page.
To send a commissary carepack (food, snacks and goods) directly to an inmate in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility follow these steps:
For all information, tips and available items for shipping Commissary packages to an inmate in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, as well as sending money to the inmate so that they can purchase their own items, check out our Commissary Instructions Page for Nevada County.
Gone are the days where Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility supervised their own phone system, mail system, visitation, commissary and inmate money deposit systems. Jails throughout the United States are now partnering with high tech companies to provide and manage these servives for them and the jail in Nevada County is no different.
Everything from video calls, to messages to visitation, and even digital mail and money deposits can be done from your home computer or personal device. Inmates in Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, if they don't already, will soon have their own personal tablets for watching movies, TV shows, access to educational and and legal information, and more.
As Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility adds these services, JAILEXCHANGE will add them to our pages, helping you access the services and answering your questions about how to use them and what they cost.
You can check out this information now by going to the: Family Info page, Visit Inmate page, Inmate Mail page, Inmate Phone page, Send Money page, Inmate Bail page, Mugshots page, Text/Email an Inmate page, Commissary page, Remote Visits page, or the Tablet Rental page.
Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility
| STATE | COUNTY | BEDS |
|---|---|---|
| California | Nevada | 283 |
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
925 Maidu Avenue
Nevada City, CA 95959
TELEPHONE NUMBER
FAX
Adult Probation: 530-265-6280
Court: 530-478-1938
District Attorney: 530-478-1871
Juvenile: 530-478-7976
Juvenile Probation: 530-265-6280
Police: 530-265-9259
Public Defender: 530-478-5626
INMATE MAIL
Inmate's First and Last Name
Wayne Brown Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 928
Nevada City, CA 95959
How many inmates are in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California?
There are 283 inmates in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California. While that is what they are approved to have incarcerated at any one time, they have on occasion had to add additional beds, even having inmates sleep on the floor when overcrowding becomes an issue. When possible, Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility will temporarily transfer some inmates to a neighboring facility, or if necessary, release some offenders from custody. Learn more about how to search for a specific inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
How many people get arrested and booked into the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California every year?
In 2021, a total of 5660 offenders were booked into the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California. That is less than previous years, mostly due to restrictions related to the COVID pandemic. As of April 2022, the number of arrests and bookings are returning to normal, which means they are running higher than 2021. Learn more about how to search for an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
How many people work at the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California?
The Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility maintains a staff of approximately 70. Staff positions include correction officers, maintenance, clerical, kitchen workers and management. California law allows for inmates to work alongside the paid staff during their incarceration, saving the facility money. Even though the inmates are paid, the cost is less than 15% of what a normal worker from the outside would be paid.
Does the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California have an inmate search or jail roster to see who is in custody?
Yes, the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California has an Inmate Search Roster feature. Learn more about how to search for an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. When you get to this page click on the big green button that reads 'OFFICIAL Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility INMATE LIST'. After clicking on the link, type in the offender's name and then click 'search'. You can always call and speak to someone on the staff at 530-265-1291 if you are have further questions. In most cases the Inmate Roster provides information about the inmate's bond, criminal charges, mugshot, and even their release date, as long as they are not being sent to a California prison or the US Bureau of Prisons to serve a sentence that is longer than one year.
What is the address and phone number of the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in California?
The Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility address and phone number is:
925 Maidu Avenue
Nevada City, CA 95959. Their phone number is 530-265-1291.
To find out the address for sending an inmate mail, sending newspapers, magazines or care packages, learn more about how to mail an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
Where do I found out all the inmate services at Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility, such as visitation policy and schedule, how the inmate phone system works, emailing an inmate, and sending them money to buy things in commissary?
Here is where you get direct access to all the information you need for Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility inmate services: Learn more about how to visit an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. Learn more about how to get phone calls from an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. Learn more about how to text/email an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. Learn more about how to send money to an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. Learn more about how to mail an inmate and what's allowed in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility. Learn more about inmate commissary in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
How do I bail or bond an inmate out of the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility?
Call 530-265-1291 for the type of bond and any information that is required for a particular individual at Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
A bond is set according to a court-approved schedule. You will either have to pay a cash bail, or put up a private, surety or a property bond to guarantee to the court that the defendant will return on their assigned court date. Learn more about how to bail or bond out an inmate in the Nevada County Jail - Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.
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