Ionia County Jail

Ionia County Jail basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 616-527-5737

The Ionia County Jail is a medium-security detention center located at 133 Adams St Ionia, MI which is operated locally by the Ionia County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Ionia County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Ionia Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

Inmate Programs

Jail programs are to assist inmates in returning back into the community with job skills, anger control techniques, and counseling with substance abuse issues.

Inmate Phones

Inmate phone service through Securus. FIfteen minute calls are $18.03. With an InmateAid number we can get the same 15-minute call for $3.15 (save $14.88 per call). Click here to check it out.

With these programs, our aim is to return the inmates to the community with the education and tools to not only improve their lifestyle, but to make them productive members of the community.

Programs Available to the Inmates

• Life Skills Programs
• Educational Programs
• Jail Diversion Programs
• Community Service Programs
• Work Programs
• Substance Abuse

INMATE PERSONAL MAIL

Ionia County Jail Inmates are only be allowed to receive postcards, no bigger than 3 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ from friends and family, etc. ​Postcards are to be a plain white postcard, no larger than 3 1/4″ x 5 1/2” and are to be a “stamped postcard” (the stamp is pre-inked directly on the postcard and purchased through the US Post Office). Photo postcards of the same size will be accepted if the stamp is pre-printed on the photo postcard. Photo postcards will be accepted from a third party publisher such as (inmateaid.com) as long as it meets the above criteria. Address the cards to Ionia County Correctional Center, c/o Inmate’s Name, 133 E. Adams St., Ionia, MI 48846. All correspondence must include a return address with the first and last name of the sender included. Mail received with only a last name or first initial and last name of the sender will be returned.

Friends and family wishing to mail money to an inmate of the Ionia County Correctional Center must address the envelope to Ionia County Jail, c/o Inmate’s Name, 133 E. Adams St., Ionia MI 48846. Your first and last name must be included with the return (sender’s) address. The envelope shall only contain a money order made out in the inmate’s name. If the envelope contains any correspondence, the correspondence and a copy of the policy will be placed in the envelope, the envelope will be sealed, stamped “Return to Sender” and returned to the post office.

Officers will open all “legal mail” in the presence of the inmate. If non-legal mail is found in the envelope, the non-legal mail will be confiscated; the sender will be notified that increased monitoring of the inmate’s legal mail will take place and turned over to the Prosecutor’s office if needed. All outgoing envelopes or postcards will have metered postage. Indigent inmates are allowed to order an Indigent pack after two weeks of incarceration. This pack will have a stamped envelope, pencil, and paper included.

Inmates will be allowed to send “legal mail” in sealed envelopes. “Legal mail” is defined as any and all attorney-client correspondence, correspondence with the Courts or the State of Michigan, correspondence pertaining to the “conditions of confinement”, etc. An inmate may request in writing an envelope to send out legal mail. The postage will be deducted from his/her commissary account. Inmates with a zero commissary balance will not receive an envelope until there are sufficient funds to pay for postage.