![]() Hard cover books will not be accepted by the jail due to their potential to be used as a weapon. No more than five books may be shipped at any one time. Any book that does not meet the Montgomery County Jail standards will be disposed of. ![]() The Montgomery County Jail allows books to be mailed directly to the jail from a reputable source such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million. You can order them directly from your computer and have them shipped to the inmate at the address above.īooks must NOT contain images or content that are considered excessively violent, pornographic or obscene. Any magazines that contain profanity, weapons, pornography or other content that is adult in nature will be confiscated by the jail staff and will NOT be delivered to the inmate. News, special interest or sports magazines may also be mailed to an inmate as long as they are shipped directly from the publisher. Local or national newspapers may also be mailed to the inmate as long as they are mailed directly from the newspaper publisher. No more than 10 pictures at one time, and no larger than 5x7 inches. All mail must have a full return address in top left corner of envelope. The Montgomery County Jail also allows regular postcards and envelopes to be mailed to inmates as well. They may also allow certain photo postcards as long as they have not been tampered with or contain images that may be considered to be obscene or violent in nature. The Montgomery County Jail allows inmates to receive pre-metered postcards like the type purchased from the post office. The number does not include medications or other special needs costs that might be necessary.Type of Mail Allowed for Montgomery County Jail PHOTOS: Latest inmate photos from the county jailīelow are the 10 Montgomery County Jail residents who have been behind bars the longest through April 10, including how much their stays have cost taxpayers based on the county’s estimated jail bed cost. Roy said a recent daily population was 710. The Montgomery County Jail averaged between 805 and 833 inmates from 2014 through 2018. Other long-term local jail residents not on the list include federal inmates such as convicted terrorism suspect Laith Alebbini, who was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on April 26, 2017, but moved in February 2018 to Shelby County Jail. “Or they (may) sit there and be on the flip side of it - not knowing what’s happening to them, how long they’re going to be here and that anxiety keeps going up and we start getting the concerns of how do we manage that.” “Anybody that’s here long term, whether It’s a federal inmate or it’s someone who has signed their (speedy trial) time waiver and they’re here for quite a while, the biggest thing is they have nothing else to do in here but either figure out ways to game the system,” said Roy, who did not address specific inmates. The other three inmates’ charges range from child sex crimes to weapons under disability, domestic violence, illegal nutrition assistance benefits and drug trafficking. Of the six that have Montgomery County Common Pleas Court cases, three are facing murder charges. The federal inmates were booked in for drug trafficking and/or weapons charges. TRENDING: Dayton man convicted of kidnapping, rape sentenced to prison Rosales has the current longest stay of 785 days through April 10. He had a sentencing hearing delayed April 11 and now has a teleconference scheduled for April 29. Of the top 10 longest-term inmates, four have federal cases, such as Jason Rosales, who was booked in on Valentine’s Day 2017. It is a prison and a mental health care (and drug addiction) facility. “And, unfortunately, it’s everything but that anymore. “Jail is supposed to be a pretrial detention facility, which is this is where they basically stay while everything goes through the court system,” Roy said. ![]() ![]() Unlike prisons, which Roy said are more set up for recreation, video visitation and other inmate opportunities, the Montgomery County Jail jail holds mostly people from all corners of the county who are not convicted and some serving shorter sentences. ![]()
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