ABOUT Essex County Correctional Facility
The Essex County Correctional Facility in the city of Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts is a maximum-security facility. Because the inmates in this jail range from low level, misdemeanor offenders to those being held for violent crimes like robbery, rape and murder, the security level has to be as high as is it would be in any maximum-security state prison.
Some of the security features in this facility include security cameras, electronic detection and reinforced fencing topped with razor wire. Correctional officers in Essex County Correctional Facility are armed with mace and trained to use physical force to protect themselves and other inmates from violence.
The men and women being held in the Essex County Correctional Facility are either awaiting trial or have been sentenced in the Essex County Court System already and been sentenced to one year or less.
When an inmate is sentenced to a year or more, they are transferred to the /state-prisons/massachusetts or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Illegal immigrants may be transferred into ICE custody and are then deported.
Inmates in the Essex County Correctional Facility are fed three meals a day totaling 2,500 calories, are allowed access to phones to contact friends and family members, are allowed at least one hour a day for exercise, have access to books, a legal library, and bathroom and shower facilities.
The inmates are allowed mail to be delivered to them as well as newspapers and magazines from trusted outside publishers.
Family and Friends of inmates are allowed to schedule a time to visit.
Information You Will Find on This Page
On this page you will find direct links to specific information that friends and family members of inmates will find very helpful and very useful:
How to Bail out an Inmate at this jail
Inmate Phone use for this facility
Visitation Rules and Schedules - both here and online
Commissary Deposits and Inmate Accounts
Essex County Correctional Facility Inmate Mail Guidelines
We also provide information on:
Essex County Correctional Facility
STATE | COUNTY | BEDS |
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Massachusetts | Essex | 1,000 |
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
20 Manning Avenue
Middleton, MA 01949-2807
TELEPHONE NUMBER
Essex Alternative Center: 978-750-1900 x4309
Booking: 978-750-1900
Women In Transition: 978-750-1900 x3720
Essex Correctional: 978-750-1900
Juvenile: 978-750-1900
Schedule a Tour: 978-750-1900 x3350
Schedule a Youth Tour: 978-750-1900 x3519
Community Corrections: 978-681-4747
Sheriff: 978-750-1900
Visitation: 978-750-1900 x3810
Adult Probation - Lawrence: 978-462-4474
Adult Probation - Lawrence: 978-242-1905
Arrest Warrants: 617-376-6269
Superior Court - Lawrence: 978-242-1900
Superior Court - Salem: 978-744-5500
Superior Court - Newburyport: 978-462-4474
District Attorney: 978-745-6610
Juvenile Court - Lawrence: 978-725-4900
Juvenile Court - Salem: 978-745-9660
Adult Probation - Salem: 978-825-4880
Juvenile Probation - Lawrence: 978-725-3875
Juvenile Court - Lynn: 781-586-0415
Juvenile Court - Newburyport: 978-462-0617
Public Defender: 978-825-2020
Sheriff: 978-750-1900
FAX
Sheriff: 978-750-1999
INMATE MAIL
Inmate's First and Last Name
Essex County Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 807
Inmate's Name, Inmate's Unit & Cell Number
Middleton, MA 01949-2807