Try this routine:

1. Go to the custody lookup page.
2. Type the surname. Too many names? Add the first name.
3. Try nicknames, a married name or a shortened first name.
4. Look at the status line for their custody status.
5. Phone 517-265-4400 for the charge, the bond and release details.

The same jail number plays a recording with the next court date. Staff can fill in what a screen can't.

Blank results are normal early on. Here is what may be going on:

• Booking in progress. Fingerprinting, searches and a health screen come first.
• A city police cell. The arresting department may keep the person briefly before sending them to Adrian.
• Back on the street. Someone may have paid bond at the jail already, or arraignment may have ended with a release order.
• Held elsewhere. A jail in another county may have the person.
• Spelling trouble. Check each spelling you know.

Phone 517-265-4400. If staff have no booking, ask the department that made the arrest. Those numbers close out this page.

The county's pages name a single adult jail, the Lenawee County Jail, 549 N. Winter Street, Adrian, MI 49221, 517-265-4400. It acts as the intake and holding center for every arrest. People waiting on court and people serving time both live there, and a classification process splits them up by risk and need.

The Sheriff's Office sits close by at 405 N. Winter Street, Adrian, MI 49221. It supervises the jail but does not hold anyone itself.

When police in a neighboring area made the arrest, that area's Sheriff may hold the person. Scan the Michigan jail directory and phone the right one. A teen is kept apart from adults; see the youth answer near the end.

The county's pages never mention mugshots or booking photos on the lookup. Ask the jail at 517-265-4400 whether it can help.

A Michigan Attorney General opinion treats police pictures of suspects as records the public may ask for. Still, the agency can decline when sharing one would be an unfair intrusion on privacy. Mugshots are requested from the arresting department under Michigan's Freedom of Information law, MCL 15.231 and following.

• ICE keeps its own photos. Request them on the ICE records page.
• The U.S. Marshals Service alone may release a federal booking photo, such as when hunting a fugitive. Most other booking photos from federal cases are not given out.

MI-VINE sends a free alert whenever a county jail inmate is freed, transferred or reported escaped, or when a state prisoner's status shifts. Court events are covered too. Sign up at vinelink.com or dial 800-770-7657.

Alerts can lag. When timing matters, also phone 517-265-4400. Released people walk out near door 138, on the Trestle Park side at the back of the jail, so tell your ride where to wait.

Michigan offers several paths:

• Interim bond. When no magistrate is around, the ranking deputy at the jail may take a modest bond on some misdemeanors. In a domestic violence arrest, a judge or magistrate must make the call first, so the person stays put.
• Arraignment. The 2-A District Court sits at 425 N. Main Street, Adrian, MI 49221, 517-264-4675. A judge or magistrate, often on video, sets the terms. Many people go home on their own promise to return or a bond that needs no cash up front. Some face rules, like staying away from one person. Cash bail needs a reason on the record.
• Cash in town. Pay cash bonds at the Judicial Building, 425 N. Main Street, Adrian, MI 49221, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., holidays excluded. Other hours, pay at the jail. After dark, take the exact amount plus booking fees to door 138.
• Bond agent. Jail staff can't recommend anyone. The county shares a list of court-approved bondspeople.

If a 10 percent cash deposit was paid, the court refunds all of it unless the person is convicted of an offense under MCL 780.66, minus fines or costs owed. Read more on our bail page, with state rules at Michigan bail law.

The jail writes down a charge at booking. Phone 517-265-4400 and ask what was entered.

When a case is opened, look for it in MiCOURT Case Search. If nothing comes up, dial the 2-A District Court clerk at 517-264-4675. The Prosecuting Attorney picks the final charges and takes calls at 517-264-4640.

Judges raise the topic of counsel themselves. If the person can't afford an attorney, the court looks into appointing one. Having the money for bond does not by itself rule out court-paid help.

The county states that a public defender office serves people unable to pay in misdemeanor and felony cases. Ask the court at 517-264-4675 how to reach that office. The Michigan Indigent Defense Commission answers at 517-657-3066. Families may also hire a private attorney whenever they like.

Visits take place over tablets instead of across a table. The inmate must live in general population and have tablet access. Compare our visitation page.

1. Sign up with GettingOut, the vendor the jail names, at gettingout.com/visit-now or 866-516-0115.
2. Join from your own phone or computer, or reserve a video booth in the jail's visitation area at door 301, south side.
3. Booths and online visits run every day, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and again 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Attorneys and clergy on the approved professional list may come in person or by video between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. For questions, call 517-265-4400.

Cash taken at arrest is placed in a trust account. It covers bond, commissary, haircuts and booking fees. The jail does not send refunds to relatives or mail checks to pay bills. More help is on our money page and commissary page.

• Pay at touchpaydirect.com or phone 866-232-1899. Touchpay is the service the jail points families to.
• Or use the kiosk in the visitation area.
• Bring the facility number, 249201, and the inmate number. The county's payments page backs this up.

Snack and care packages are ordered through iCare at lenaweemi.icaregifts.com with a credit card and the inmate number. They are delivered Mondays and Thursdays.

Calls only go out. Nobody can ring in or leave a voicemail. Every call is collect. Our phone page and messaging page give background.

• Phones work every day from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and again from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Billing questions go to 866-232-1899. The jail names Touchpay for this.
• Video chats follow the tablet steps in the visits answer.

Ask the jail at 517-265-4400 whether tablets can send texts or email.

Address the envelope to the person at 549 N. Winter Street, Adrian, MI 49221. Phone the jail at 517-265-4400 to learn how to place the name and inmate number. Our mail page adds general tips.

• Personal letters are cut down to postcards. Attorneys, courts, licensed doctors and licensed mental health workers may send regular mail.
• Staff inspect everything.
• Books must be paid for ahead and shipped by a publisher or bookstore. Hardcovers are turned away.
• Subscription magazines are fine. Nudity and sexual content are not.
• Most inmates keep up to four books or magazines and one Bible.

For a sentenced inmate, personal property stays at the jail until someone the inmate names collects it. After 30 days the jail destroys or donates what is left. Relatives can't bring items for a person inside.

Ask the jail at 517-265-4400 what happens to belongings at release. A freed person is met at door 138, in the Trestle Park area behind the building.

Phone 517-265-4400 and describe the problem to staff. Mention any medicine or ongoing condition.

• Medical staff see inmates seven days a week.
• The inmate puts a request in writing for the nurse or dentist. Encourage them to do so.
• Charges come out of the commissary balance, yet treatment is never held back over money.
• A counselor for mental health is on staff at no cost.

The Sheriff's Office also runs the jail. Phone its Records Office at 517-263-0524 and ask for Records whether a warrant exists, or visit 405 N. Winter Street, Adrian, MI 49221. Michigan has no statewide warrant lookup, so ring the Sheriff or the court to be sure. Offer the full legal name and birth date.

MiCOURT Case Search shows many cases, and a court clerk can check what the search misses. Clearing a warrant starts with legal advice. Then call that court and ask about giving yourself up. Here the District Court is at 425 N. Main Street, Adrian, MI 49221, 517-264-4675.

The jail's recorded line at 517-265-4400 gives the next hearing for someone held there. Our court page walks through each stage.

• District Court takes arraignments, bond, misdemeanors and the first steps of felonies at 425 N. Main Street, Adrian, MI 49221, 517-264-4675. A probable cause conference follows in 7 to 14 days. Then the preliminary exam is set about 5 to 7 days later.
• Circuit Court picks up felonies after the exam. The 39th Circuit clerk is at 517-264-4597.

MiCOURT Case Search lists hearing dates. If a case is absent, ask a clerk.

A person charged with a federal crime from this area is taken to the federal court for Michigan's Eastern District (Southern Division). You will find it in downtown Detroit, in the Levin federal courthouse (Theodore Levin United States Courthouse) at 231 W. Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226, clerk 313-234-5000.

Whether the person stays locked up is for a federal judge to say, at a detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142). Until sentencing, the U.S. Marshals Service watches over the person. Its office in that courthouse, Room 300, answers at 313-202-0135. After sentencing, use the BOP inmate locator.

A jail can be asked by ICE to keep someone until agents arrive. The request is a detainer, filed on Form I-247A. Under 8 CFR 287.7(d), the jail may keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released. ICE then decides whether to take custody.

Try the ICE Online Detainee Locator, which asks for a name and country of birth. You may also call the ERO Detroit Field Office, 985 Michigan Avenue, Suite 207, Detroit, MI 48226, 313-771-6601. It covers Michigan and Ohio.

County deputies take men to Jackson for intake at the Reception and Guidance Center. A woman's intake happens at the reception center in Ypsilanti. The first stretch, about 30 to 45 days, is for intake. Visits are paused then, but letters and deposits still work.

Search for them in OTIS, the Michigan Department of Corrections lookup. Our state prison directory lists facilities.

Anyone younger than 18 is a juvenile in Michigan and is kept away from adult inmates. Cases start in the Family Division of Circuit Court. Reach the Juvenile Court at 517-264-4622 or the Probate Court at 517-264-4614.

Youth detention is at the Maurice Spear Campus Detention Unit, 2910 Airport Road, Adrian, MI 49221, 517-265-5171. It offers 26 beds, split between a boys wing and a girls wing. If a judge agrees, a youth who has turned 14 can be tried as an adult. Some very serious offenses by teens 14 to 17 begin in Circuit Court.

Ask the agency that made the arrest where the person was taken. The Sheriff's Office covers the rest of the county day and night. Write to 405 N. Winter Street, Adrian, MI 49221, or call Records at 517-263-0524, or the Administrative Office at 517-264-5368.

• Adrian: City police 517-264-4808, City Hall 135 E. Maumee Street, Adrian, MI 49221. Adrian Charter Township 517-264-1000, 2907 Tipton Highway, Adrian, MI 49221. Madison Charter Township 517-263-3130, 3804 S. Adrian Highway, Adrian, MI 49221.
• Hudson: 517-448-8129, City Hall 121 N. Church Street, Hudson, MI 49247.
• Morenci: 517-458-7104, City Hall 118 Orchard Street, Morenci, MI 49256.
• Tecumseh: City police 517-423-7494, City Hall 309 E. Chicago Boulevard, Tecumseh, MI 49286. Raisin Charter Township 517-424-4615, 5525 Occidental Highway, Tecumseh, MI 49286.
• Blissfield: Village police 517-486-4340, 130 S. Lane Street, Blissfield, MI 49228.
• Clinton: Village police 517-456-4511, 119 E. Michigan Avenue, Clinton, MI 49236.
• Onsted area: Cambridge Township 517-467-4737, 9990 W. M-50, Onsted, MI 49265.
• State Police: Post 14 in Monroe, 300 Jones Avenue, Monroe, MI 48161, 734-242-3500.