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Grundy County Jail Overview

Grundy County Jail is a county jail operated by the Grundy County Sheriff's Office. The jail is housed by the sheriff's office in Grundy Center and serves the county-level jail population, including local arrestees, pretrial detainees, and local jail inmates. It is not a state prison, federal prison, immigration detention center, or separate city lockup. The official facility map for Grundy County identifies only this jail as a detention facility physically located in the county.

Sheriff Kirk Dolleslager is listed as the county sheriff. The sheriff and deputies serve rural and unincorporated areas and also provide contracted law enforcement for Beaman, Conrad, Dike, Holland, Morrison, Stout, Reinbeck, and Wellsburg. That local coverage matters for a Grundy County Jail inmate search because an arrest in one of those smaller communities may still route through the sheriff's jail process rather than through a separate city jail.

The official sheriff page publishes the jail capacity, office contact block, and visitation window. The screenshot below comes from the Grundy County Sheriff's Office page, which is the local source for the jail's basic contact information and visitation posting.

Because the county's public jail page is brief, current custody, visiting, mail, money, and bond questions should be confirmed with the sheriff before travel or mailing anything.

Grundy County Jail Capacity

The current county-published capacity for Grundy County Jail is 14 beds. Vera Incarceration Trends lists a different historical rated capacity of 17 beds for 2013 through 2019, so the sources must be read by date and purpose. Treat the 14-bed figure as the current county-published facility capacity and the Vera figure as historical research data. No official current daily jail population dashboard or online roster count was located in the county materials inspected for this build.

These figures show why Grundy County Jail should not be treated like a large jail with a constant online booking stream. The available high-authority data points to a small local jail with sparse public-facing systems. Current population can change quickly, so the sheriff's office remains the local source for live custody verification.

Look Up Grundy County Jail Custody

No verified official online Grundy County Jail roster, booking report, mugshot feed, or "who's in jail" page was located on the official sheriff page, records page, FAQ page, or inspected sheriff subpages. The official local route is direct sheriff contact for current custody and a written jail public-information request for records. IowaVINE can help with custody notification where the person appears in the system, but it does not replace the sheriff's records process.

1. Call the Grundy County Sheriff's Office at (319) 824-6933 for current custody questions.
2. For a written jail public-information check, give the person's full name and date of birth.
3. Ask for the public jail information the county says it provides: arrest date, arresting agency, charges, and disposition.
4. Use Iowa VINELink for custody status or notification registration when available.
5. Use Iowa DOC Offender Search only if the person may be sentenced or under DOC supervision.

For federal custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. Those systems do not cover ordinary pretrial custody at Grundy County Jail. For filed charges after booking, use Grundy County court records after jail arrest and the Iowa court portals.

Grundy County Jail Records Requests

The official sheriff records page states that the sheriff will check Grundy County Jail public information records upon written request. The requester must provide the full name and date of birth for the person being searched. For mailed requests, the county requires a self-addressed stamped envelope. No official online jail-records request form was located.

The same county page identifies the returned jail public-information fields. The screenshot below comes from the Grundy County sheriff records page, the local source for written jail record checks.

The records process is narrower than a full jail profile. It supports public-information checks, but it does not publish a booking number, housing unit, bond field, mugshot, release date, commissary account, or online profile URL.

Grundy County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the main local contact block. The sheriff page says law enforcement is provided 24 hours a day, while administrative office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. No separate booking desk number was published. Use the routine phone number for custody questions, records routing, visitation confirmation, and questions about mail or money before sending anything to the jail.

The sheriff also publishes a fax number, sheriff email, and tip or information email, but custody and visitation questions should start with the routine phone line because the county did not publish a dedicated jail information line. Emergency calls remain 911.

Visit Grundy County Jail Inmates

Official Grundy County Jail visitation information is limited but clear. The sheriff page lists inmate visitation on Sunday and Wednesday only from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. No official online scheduling portal, video visitation vendor, visitor approval form, dress code, minor visitor rule, identification rule, visit length, holiday rule, or attorney-visit policy was located in the inspected county sources.

Because the county does not publish visitor-entry details, call before leaving for the jail. Confirm whether the visit is in person or otherwise arranged, what identification is accepted, whether children may visit, where visitors enter, and whether phones, bags, keys, or coats are restricted.

Note: Confirm custody and visitation with the sheriff before travel because jail status, lockdowns, and visit rules can change without web notice.

Mail and Money at Grundy County Jail

No official inmate mail format, commissary provider, money-deposit kiosk, online deposit vendor, phone provider, tablet vendor, or fee table was located for Grundy County Jail. The county did not publish a separate inmate handbook or mail rules page in the inspected source set. Do not assume that a vendor used by another Iowa jail applies here.

The practical rule is simple: call (319) 824-6933 before sending mail, money, books, packages, or property. Ask whether the person is still held at the jail, what name format to use, whether mail must include a date of birth or booking identifier, and whether money can be accepted at all.

Grundy County Jail Booking

Official Grundy County sources do not publish a detailed booking or intake procedure. A local arrest may involve the sheriff, a contracted city law-enforcement arrangement, Grundy Center Police, or another agency. The public-facing booking information confirmed by the county is limited to the written jail public-information check: date of arrest, arresting agency, charges, and disposition. The county did not publish a booking-number format, booking-photo rule, release-list timing rule, or roster refresh schedule.

After a booking, court timing should be checked separately. Iowa Courts Online help says new cases take one business day to appear after being added to the case-management system, and then case data updates in real time. That means someone can be in Grundy County Jail before a new criminal case is visible online. Once filed, the court record is the better source for formal charges, hearing dates, and court disposition.

Grundy County Jail vs Other Locators

Different custody systems answer different questions. Grundy County Jail is for local county custody. Iowa DOC Offender Search is for sentenced state prisoners and supervised offenders. BOP is for federal custody. ICE ODLS is for immigration detention. IowaVINE is a notification and custody-status tool. A person may move from one system to another after sentencing, transfer, federal pickup, or an immigration hold.

About Grundy County Jail

Grundy County Jail is small and locally focused. The research did not locate an official jail history, construction year, current inspection report, accreditation note, grievance policy, GED program, work-release program, or jail-specific reentry program. Iowa Code chapter 356 and Iowa Administrative Code 201-50 govern county jails and municipal holding facilities at the state level, but no Grundy-specific jail standards report was located in the inspected source set.

Local context still matters. Grundy County participates in the Mid-Iowa Drug Task Force, which the county describes as a four-county, multi-agency effort focused on methamphetamine use, manufacturing, importation, distribution, and related violent crime. Iowa DOC First District community corrections covers Grundy County for services such as pretrial services, probation, parole, pre-sentence investigation, treatment-related programming, and residential or work-release services. Those are not the same as programs inside the jail, but they are part of the wider local correctional pathway.