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Gratiot County Jail Overview

The Gratiot County Sheriff's Office operates Gratiot County Jail through its Jail Division in Ithaca. The jail is the county's main public custody point for new local arrests, warrant arrests, local sentenced jail terms, and people held while courts or other agencies decide the next step. The Sheriff's Office page identifies the jail as part of the sheriff complex and links directly to the public JailTracker roster, inmate accounts, bond payments, the fee schedule, and annual reports. That makes the sheriff page the clean starting point when a user needs an official Gratiot County jail inmate record.

Official jail material describes a local facility with a stated capacity of 70 inmates. The same county page says the building had a major renovation in 2001 and lists staffing of 13 full-time staff, one jail administrator, and up to six temporary correctional officers. Those details matter because the Gratiot County jail roster is not a state-prison list. It is tied to a county facility that handles the first custody record after arrest. Once a person is sentenced to MDOC prison, the public search path changes to OTIS.

The county's sheriff page screenshot in the image manifest shows the official hub used for Jail Division contact, inmate roster access, fee schedule review, and account links. The source is the Gratiot County Sheriff's Office contact page.

Use that county page before a third-party search site because it points to the official Jail Division tools and contact channels.

Gratiot County Jail Population

Gratiot County's own annual reports provide the strongest population data for the jail. The 2025 Sheriff's Office annual report lists an average daily jail count of 56, a total midnight count of 20,474, 1,165 inmates received, 1,169 inmates released, 559 inmate visitors, and 71,021 meals served. The 2024 report listed an average daily count of 58, so the 2025 average was slightly lower while total receipts and releases were higher than the prior year.

The stated capacity of 70 inmates and the 2025 average daily count of 56 put the annual average at about 80 percent of stated capacity. That does not prove each day stayed under capacity, because daily jail counts can rise or fall around the average. Still, it is the best official measure located for the Gratiot County Jail population. The annual reports also show that the jail receives and releases more than one thousand people per year, even though the daily count is far smaller.

Look Up Gratiot County Jail Inmates

The official county jail lookup uses the Gratiot County JailTracker roster, which is linked from the sheriff page as the inmate roster. JailTracker is the right tool for a person held in Gratiot County Jail after a local arrest or local jail commitment. It is not the right tool for sentenced MDOC prisoners at Central Michigan Correctional Facility or St. Louis Correctional Facility. Those prisoners are searched through OTIS. For a fuller county roster walk-through, the Gratiot County jail inmate records page separates JailTracker, phone, FOIA, OTIS, VINE, BOP, and ICE channels.

1. Start on the Sheriff's Office page and use the Inmate Roster link, or open the official JailTracker roster for Gratiot County.
2. Search by last name and first name when the roster loads in a modern browser.
3. Open the matching profile and check booking, charge, bond, hold, release, and image fields if those fields are shown.
4. If the roster does not load or the name is missing, call the Jail Division at 989-875-5211.
5. For older or offline records, use a written Gratiot County FOIA request rather than relying on a third-party listing.

JailTracker model fields found in the research include last name, first name, search type, released-since value, captcha fields, agency options, offender identity fields, original booking date, final release date, charge fields, bond fields, warrant fields, hold fields, court fields, and image fields. The text-only capture did not render live Gratiot profiles, so the page should be treated as a public roster shell that must be opened in a browser for current results.

Gratiot County Jail Contact

The Jail Division is the fallback when the roster is unavailable, when a booking has not appeared online, or when a visitor needs current entry rules. The directory entry lists the Jail Division as open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sheriff's Office administration and civil division hours are narrower weekday business hours, so bond, jail status, and current custody questions should be routed carefully.

Gratiot County Jail Visits

Official Gratiot County pages inspected did not publish a detailed county-jail visitation schedule, visitor-list rule, dress code, attorney-visit policy, video-visit vendor, or mail rule. The annual reports prove that visits occur, with 559 inmate visitors in 2025 and 596 in 2024. Because the schedule is not published in the research, visitors should call the Jail Division before travel and ask for the current visit type, approved days, identification rules, dress code, visitor-list requirements, and any limits tied to housing, discipline, health status, or court order.

Do not use a prison visiting schedule for the county jail. MDOC schedules apply to sentenced state prisoners at the two St. Louis prisons, not to a Gratiot County Jail booking.

Gratiot County Jail Mail and Money

Gratiot County links inmate accounts, deposits, debts, and bond payments to Express Account from the official sheriff page. The vendor states that its services can include deposits to resident commissary accounts, care package orders, and bond or bill payments. It also lists website, phone, and kiosk channels, though the research says to confirm whether a Gratiot kiosk is available before relying on it. Bond should always be verified with the jail or court before payment, since a no-bond order, warrant hold, MDOC detainer, federal hold, or out-of-county hold can block release.

The official jail pages inspected did not publish a mail-address format, phone vendor, tablet program, or commissary rule sheet for Gratiot County Jail. Use the Jail Division phone before sending mail or money if the inmate has a common name, recent release, transfer risk, or hold. Ask whether the jail requires a booking number, housing unit, return address format, approved items list, or special handling for legal mail.

The image manifest includes the official Express Account vendor page linked by Gratiot County for deposits, accounts, and bond payments.

Use the vendor only after confirming the inmate, facility, and payment purpose, because jail fees and bond payments are not the same transaction.

Gratiot County Jail Fees

The sheriff fee schedule is separate from the online deposit vendor. It lists county charges such as booking, housing, record checks, warrant fees, fingerprints, preliminary breath tests, and copies. These amounts should not be read as bond amounts. A bond is set or handled through the court and custody process, while a fee is a county charge listed by the sheriff.

The relevant screenshot comes from the Gratiot County Sheriff fee schedule, which the research identifies as current as of May 29, 2019.

Because the source is a fee schedule, verify with the sheriff or court before treating any listed amount as a release payment.

Gratiot County Jail Booking

Local booking begins when a law-enforcement agency arrests a person in Gratiot County and routes the person to the sheriff-operated jail. The intake record is created before every court issue is final. Jail staff identify the person, connect the record to an arresting agency, complete the intake process, and create public roster data if the person is eligible for public display. Jail booking normally includes a custody search, property inventory, booking photo, fingerprints, medical and mental-health screening, and placement decisions.

Michigan jail rules require medical, dental, and mental-health screening by trained staff designated by the facility administrator. The screening covers current illness, dental issues, mental-health issues, alcohol or drug use, prior treatment or hospitalization, pregnancy possibility, visible behavior or trauma, and medical disposition. The county did not publish detailed local housing rules, but state jail standards still apply to the Gratiot County Jail intake process.

About Gratiot County Jail

The sheriff annual reports describe a jail operation tied to a broader local law-enforcement office. They publish jail population, arrests, inmates received and released, visitor counts, meal counts, corrections training, maintenance, and money returned to courts or other fiscal categories. The reports also state a goal of operating a secure and constitutionally correct correctional facility that meets or exceeds state and federal standards.

Program detail for the county jail was limited in the official online sources inspected. No official county catalog was found for GED, substance-abuse treatment, religious services, grievance procedures, medical vendor, or work release. When program or condition questions are important, confirm with the Jail Division or use the county FOIA process for public records that are not posted online.