Polk County Jail is located in Balsam Lake, a city located in Polk County, WI that serves as the prison facility for Polk County and surrounding areas. When WI residents are sentenced to a minimum - maximum prison, they are often sent to Polk County Jail. The listed address of Polk County Jail is 1005 W Main St Ste 900. This is facility is located in Balsam Lake, WI, 54810-4403. This city is in Polk. Before traveling, you should always call the jail to verify your inmate is still located at this address and that they can receive visitors.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at
inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit
send postcards. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. WI has many types of prison facility. City Jails, County Jails, State Jails and State Penitentiaries will each have their own rules and times for visitation and even rules for sending and receiving inmate mail
Polk County Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Polk County Jail will be treated. Prison is expensive. Even public prison facilities appear to be operating like for-profit prisons these days. Long distance phone calls are a favorite way for jails to make money. Charging inmates for everything from soap to toothpaste is another. Even sending your inmate money to buy these things will come with an added fee. The first thing to do is set up an economical line of communication as suggested above. Then you can communicate with the inmate to discuss a reasonable budget and how the family can work together to pay and keep it.
Polk County Jail is located in the PST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Polk County Jail warden is Sheriff Mark Garton. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Polk County Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Polk County Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.