Elmwood Correctional Facility

Huge campus… Definitely protected buy the electrical wired high voltage thorny fences lol… Saw inmates Playing outside.
Across from an elementary school and residential area… Don’t be alarmed the place is protected.

This place has improved a little bit.
The food is a little better but man food is one reason to stay out of jail if you like good good.
Its very warm here. THey check on you quite often to make sure you didn’t turn into a ghost or something.
THey get a lot of great cable channels here.
YOU sure do get tons of sleep, sometimes too much.
The book selection could be better.
The showers are very nice, water temperature very perfection.
Sometimes if you take longer then five minutes there’s this guy that tries to get a little touchy feely tho.
Hey I made some great meals out of Ramen here.
I gotta tip for ya foodwise, try to get as many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as you can.
The patio area is pretty cool. Its the best breeze you’ll get here.
Stay away from the chickens, somethings wrong with them.
There’s a lot of pay phones, you could only use them at certain times tho.
The workout area and tattoo area could be better.

They have a review page for Elmwood? This place sucks but then stay the fuck outta trouble and you won’t end up here. Pretty simple.

3 meals a day a bed to sleep in even got a TV was livin like a king for free. Now i spend 80 bucks a day for the same shit minis the TV. When I need to vacation I’ll take a trip back. Gotta love the ranch.

I get that it’s jail but their visitation system is unfortunate. Visiting someone I knew who is on trial for murder is % 150 more accessible in redwood city then trying to see someone I care about for petty charges in elmwood. The visitation office is not supportive and in my opinion lazy. I resent Santa clara county on so many levels. I get that it s a huge facility but you are only costing the community money when it is clear that no thought is put into making the system actually effective. Example is you have to go online to set up an appointment. NOTHING is available. They tell me to call when I come in to ask. When I call they tell me it’s NO different then online. F You santa clara! Corrupt, greedy and inefficient shame on you!

What can I say?! Not only are the servers here courteous, but the food is delectable. I must say, the the two Chicken Thighs for 5 soups deal is by far one of the top deals served in the state of California. Once the chicken is marinated with the chili seasoning and some pork rinds, Sunday dinners will truly be memorable. Not in the mood for something too heavy? The coffee pot heated stinky meat and mayo sandwich with the special seasoning from the kitchen is a great snack! The best part is, there are no reservations needed to dine here! It’s always open and always welcomes you. Five stars!

Shit on a shingle is the breakfast there ever barracks 9 has name on the wall from 97 since the last time was there

Be sure to try the coffee cake there… They only serve it at 3AM so be sure to get in line early, Its the best thing they got there & its free!

Had a not so pleasant stay here at Elmwood Correctional Facility and let me tell you it ain’t what its cracked up to be. Correctional Officers there are of little to no help if you need anything. Mattresses are as thin as 3 pieces of double stuffed oreos. Blankets with gun shot holes in them. Telephones that only function at certain times. Walls littered with dirt & grime. Showers and toilets missing their doors. 2 tiny t. v’s where one is only limited to sports while the other is limited to shows or re-​run movies. Loud & noisy short term to long term guests from all flocks of life. & Don’t get me started on the food! Yuck! Will not be back!
Stay Tip:
If you want some excitement in your life with the chance of being in a brawl head over to «M2» aka the «THUNDERDOME» that place is literally designed for fights and constant LOCKDOWNS!

if u ever have to go here watch the black quards who allow rape and fights to exist. if u ever have the pleasure of meeting the warden of this place i would say u have met the devil. this place is not prison but be warned.

As far as correctional facilities go, this one was not bad at all. I received a 60 day sentence and was lucky enough to get into the In-​Camp program since i was gainfully employed, which means you turn yourself in on Friday night and are released Sunday night so that you may continue working Monday through Friday.
All incoming patrons are frisked, strip searched, and provided clothing and linens. Most are housed in General Population which is a series of of open air barracks each housing between 80 and 120 inmates each (on bunk beds). Uniform consists of socks, underwear, undershirt, thermal (all green), a shirt, pants, and jacket (all black and white striped canvas, very retro) as well as a pair of orange sandals. You are also provided with a «fish kit» which is a plastic ziplock bag containing a plastic 8oz cup, a plastic spork, toothbrush, toothpaste, pencil stub, and a copy of the rules and regulations. After you are dressed down and classified you are given an ID card with your name, PFN#, and Housing Unit/​Bunk #.You then go to the control center where you are given a foam mattress at which point you pass into the general population to find your barracks and bunk #.
If you respect the inmates and staff they will respect you. So long as you don’t act like a jerk you will be fine. This is a minimum security facility and people are there with short sentences not looking for any trouble. There are no guards to watch over you except for chow time and a head count 3 times a day (6am, 5pm, and 10pm, be up and alert or you will regret it). occasionally a guard will randomly walk through a barracks to check on us but for the most part we are trusted to govern ourselves.
Food service is slightly worse than elementary school hot lunches. Breakfast is at 4am (WTF) and is usually SOS (biscuits and gravy), oatmeal with boiled eggs, usually with a piece of fruit and milk. Skip it. Too early and not worth the walk to the mess hall in frigid 4am weather. Unless they have coffee cake, that was delicious.
Lunch is at 11am and is either ham sandwiches, cheese sandwiches (cheese chokers) or some kind of ham salad affectionately known as cat food. Usually with a piece of moldy fruit and a packet of Kool Aid. Not bad, its hard to mess up on a ham sandwich.
dinner is at 430pm and is either Starfish (a weird mystery meat patty named so as it is star fish in appearance, Turkey A La King, or some kind of Lasagna chilli casserole. Again with milk and moldy fruit.
DON’T FORGET YOUR SPORK !!!
If you are vegetarian, vegan, or have any special dietary needs, you may fill out a request form and get a special diet ID bracelet and they will cater to your needs.
The atmosphere is pretty typical of incarceration. Concrete, fences, bunk beds, communal bathrooms, over crowding, and lack of privacy. There is literature available in all of the barracks as well as a library monday through friday. Also many inmates will be happy to share their personal books with you so long as you return them in a timely fashion. Television is also available in all the barracks with basic cable. Football season was a blast.
Overall it was not a bad experience at all and after 30 days i was done with my sentence. You will meet people from all walks of life in here. I personally caught up with a couple old friends from high school. I even got a few job offers while at Elmwood. You even get a nice «released» stamp on your way out. Hopefully i never have to go back.

Elmwood University
I dont like Milpitas, I like Elmwood even less that being said Stay away .
As far as I can tell the only thing worse than Elmwood is the Sunnyvale PD .
Another Satisfied customer.

THIS PLACE IS AWESOME! The SOS is worth doing some time for! lol j/​k this place sucks ass!

Alright, well what can you possibly say that is good about a jail. Humm
Smells like feet! (CHECK)
Bunch of people who cant take care of them selves (CHECK)
Homeless rather be here in the winter (CHECK)
Correctional Officers tell you when you can pee poop and eat (CHECK)
and a bunch of Rude people (CHECK)
So for those of us who have been in here and come to review a jail, of course we are all going to say it sucked. Food Sucks… Rules Suck… But I guess that is why there are people who are in this place. because they think the rules suck and they cannot fallow the simple instructions made by society!
Anyways, I would have to say that this is by far one of the best jails the jail systems all across california can offer.
But you guys all know what they say about Santa Clara County…
«COME FOR VACATION, LEAVE ON PROBATION»
So if you dont like jail, and you dont like to eat their mystery meat… DONT COME TO JAIL!

My cousin went here for selling weed a while back. Went here to visit him and the place kinda smelled like feet. Also he complained that the food was terrible. You’d think that they would be able to provide better food for their residents. Other than that its a nice place. There is a mall near by and has good access to public transportation. They need more parking spots though, not enough parking.

So Let me start off by saying, that this place is the most UN-​SANITARY place in San Jose.
I went in as an inmate for a full month placed in the unit W4C, and I was innocent. But anyways the deputies there are completely rude and uneducated. A few like one or two were nice, and had a sense of humor. But otherwise they were complete ASSHOLES, the unit I was in was a «Lockdown» facility; inmates stayed in their rooms for 23 hours on a Daily basis.
Some deputies would give us our mail until their shift was over, plus the fact that they don’t let us get out of the room but on top of that the deputies made our stay worse! They are so rude and unprofessional.

I am rating the visiting hours and the ease of actually visiting… If you go to the Santa Clara County Dept. of Corrections website, everything is pretty clear cut… You need to register and be accepted to visit, and it takes a couple business days for them to vet you…
Here is where I went wrong, I had an appointment for 1pm last Thursday to see my father who is incarcerated for being an idiot and I showed up for the appointment at 12:33… They turned me back, thanks goodness I had an appointment already made for Friday too, bc otherwise, I wouldn’t have seen him for a long time if he gets the book thrown at him…
Anyway, YOU MUST be at the reception center a MINIMUM of 30 minutes before ur appointment…
And ladies, you can’t have revealing clothing which exposes ur stomach, cleavage, or even ur shoulders, so if you think ur outfit is questionable, bring a pull over sweater or something… And watch out, ur underwire bra will set the metal detector off, so consider something a lil more comfortable, a sportsbra or, no bra at all — but I digress…
One last thing, you only bring ur id and a key– thats it… Hope u all never have to visit anyone in there-​or worse…
The visiting stall is cold, echo-​y and the phone receivers are hard to hear and use… But whatever, it was a chance to see my old man…

The shuttle bus took me here since there were no vacancies at the place in San Jose. They were gracious enough to actually send a shuttle bus to take all of us to this spot, which had more vacancies.
Reception was okay. They were kinda pushy, but if you just follow whatever instructions they give you, you get to check-​in faster.
They were okay with keeping my valuables locked up, for safekeeping. You never know what those sketchy bellboys would do with your stuff.
They gave me new clothes and some really neat sandals. They also said they provide us with laundry services.
The other people staying here were pretty friendly. They offered haircuts and tattoos, and you don’t even need money! I figure they have some sort of barter system, and I’m said that I wasn’t able to partake in that for my short stay.
Seems like the crowd staying here was kinda high schoolish, since everyone broke into racially segregated groups.
They had a decent intercontinental breakfast. I opted for a mustard sandwich and apple juice.
The phones seem a little old though, and I had to resort to calling «collect» for a ride later that day.
I was able to check out, but for some reason, I was missing a ten dollar bill from my wallet after it was being safely kept. Kinda mad about that.
All in all, I don’t recommend this place to anyone.

Hopefully you’ll never have a prolonged stay… but hey… there are worse jails…
So I would like to start by saying I’ve only been here for work, that being said I will only be reviewing the reception and the interview area.
So work has whisked me off to Elmwood on multiple occasions. Before I actually went to the jail I had been to the Great Mall multiple times and never even noticed that there was a jail so close by. It’s right off of 880, very tucked away.
The reception area is as nice as you’d expect. Nothing amazing, but there are seats and lockers. The deputy at the reception desk is always super friendly and nice. They will usually joke around with you and make sure your stay is pleasant. Not sure if newly arriving inmates get the same treatment.
The jail is broken into several housing units. The furthest being M8. M8 is a serious journey. They have a «shuttle service» that will take you there, but I’ve never seen it running. In the rain or on a hot day the walk can be pretty rough, especially in a suit.
The interview room area is also what you might expect. If you are a family member or friend visiting someone then you just sit on one side of the glass and talk to the person you are visiting who is on the other side. If you are an attorney you get to go inside the housing unit and actually sit in a room with the inmate. The rooms are well kept for a jail. Obviously not beautiful, but comfortable enough. The chairs, if they have enough to go around, are pretty comfy too. Just plastic chairs, but I’ve had to sit in them for long periods of time and never complained.
So if you have to go to jail for whatever reason, it could be worse than going to elmwood.

conveniently located right off highway 880, this is a combination farm/​county jail facility. it’s patrolled by cops on mountain bikes. security is much better than it was in the early 80s. apparently people broke out all the time back then, not to escape, but rather to buy beer and bring it back in to share.
smoking is not allowed. maybe if they did allow it, people would be less tense, and there’d be less fights?
people are not split up by gangs, as they are in many jails. all the groups are mixed together. white power dudes call themselves «peckerwoods». there’s also the black guys: «brothers», a relatively small group; the «paisas» or mexican gang bangers; the «nortenos», or chicano gangbangers; and then there’s the «others», of various races and gangs.
they are also not split up by severity of offense. if you are in there over the weekend for a very minor drug offense, you will be in the same huge room with 35 bunk beds, sharing space with guys who are looking at murder charges, 25 year sentences.
if they let you out at midnight on the day of your release, you have to have someone there to pick you up. if you don’t have that, they’ll release you at 8 am the next morning.
there’s a list at the front of the entry room with current inmates, so if you suspect a friend or family member is here, you can come and search the pages. if you have a repeat offender friend, they will have a permanent id number attached to their name, so you can call and check if they are there by referencing that number.
there’s lots of shaded parking under the solar panels in the parking lot.