Brookhaven Police Jail

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The Brookhaven Police Jail is located at 440 State Highway 51 South in Brookhaven, MS and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Brookhaven Police Department.

This page tells you info about everything you might want to know about the Brookhaven Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information and tips that you’ll need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Brookhaven Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Brookhaven Police Jail Inmate Search has information about individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and visiting hours. You can also find info about anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information more quickly if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Brookhaven Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Brookhaven Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First you have to answer a bunch of questions, like your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the phone in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process can take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you will be released. Also, how fast you get released might depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if a judge still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged that morning.

Brookhaven Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to give information about each visitor to the Brookhaven Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go into the visitation log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide identification. Anyone showing up late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Brookhaven Police Jail are always changing, so call the facility at 601-833-2424 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Brookhaven Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Brookhaven Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Brookhaven Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Brookhaven Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Brookhaven Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Brookhaven Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the website or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all of the documents and filings filed in your case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail could change, so be sure to check the Brookhaven Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Brookhaven Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Brookhaven Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 601-833-2424 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Brookhaven Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products including soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that Brookhaven Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Brookhaven Police Jail phone number is: 601-833-2424

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all inmate phone calls are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Brookhaven Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Brookhaven Police Jail, click the link below.

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