Fayette County IA Jail

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Fayette County IA 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: 563-422-3972

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Fayette County IA Jail is a medium-security detention center located at 220 North Industrial Parkway
PO Box 518 West Union, IA which is operated locally by the Fayette 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. Fayette County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the West Union Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

The Fayette County Correctional Center opened in November of 2002. It currently houses up to 44 prisoners. The Fayette County jail is generally full to it’s capacity either by our own prisoners, or by housing prisoners for other counties. The Fayette County Correctional Center also houses federal inmates for the US Marshall’s when needed. The jail staff duties keep the Detention Officers busy at all times. The following is a list of Detention Officer duties:

Booking in/out prisoners
Court duties – magistrate notifications, escort prisoners to/from court
Keep jail calendars updated – Reserved bookings of prisoners
Filing of contempt of court letters for failure to do jail time
Send in monthly state jail reports
File for state refunds on housing work release violators from the West Union Residential Facility
Conduct monthly fire inspections
Keep jail policy and jail rule book updated
Take care of medical records – Escort prisoners to/from Hospital, fill prescriptions, verify medications with Dr.’s, dispense medications, dispense minor first aid supplies
Feed Prisoners
Laundry – wash and put away clean laundry.
Maintain/Clean jail – supervise the issuing of cleaning of prisoner cells by the prisoners, and receiving of all cleaning supplies back, maintain the sheriff’s office and equipment, taking out of trash and recycling procedures
Supervise prisoner visitation
Supervise prisoner exercising
Enter all daily requests of the prisoners correspondence, comments, and medications in the in-house computer.
Supervise all incoming/outgoing mail
Transport Prisoners – County wide, State wide, Nation wide.

visitation Info

PRISON_NAME – Visitation at PRISON_ADDRESS, PRISON_CITY, PRISON_STATE_ABBR

Monday 9am – 6pm
Tuesday 9am – 6pm
Wednesday 9am – 6pm
Thursday 9am – 6pm
Friday 9am – 6pm

All visits are non-contact and conducted through a glass partition. This facility may also have a video visitation option, please call PRISON_PHONE for more information and updates to the current rules and regulations.

Inmates are allowed 2 visitors per day