Follansbee Police Jail

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The Follansbee Police Jail is located at 872 Main Street in Follansbee, WV and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Follansbee Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Follansbee Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Follansbee Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or tips that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Follansbee Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Follansbee Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals currently in custody, which includes current status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to find info on anyone processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information more quickly if you have their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Follansbee Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Follansbee Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer a bunch of questions, like your full legal name, street address, birthdate and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing 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. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get released. Also, it can depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a release date, you should plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Follansbee Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Follansbee Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be put in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the facility at 304-527-1211 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Follansbee Police Jail you must be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Follansbee Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to 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, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Follansbee Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Follansbee 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 Follansbee 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 Follansbee 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can check the court records online or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, 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, by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at the Brooke County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to the Brooke County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Follansbee Police Jail inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to review the Follansbee Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Follansbee 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 Follansbee Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 304-527-1211 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 Follansbee Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Follansbee Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Follansbee Police Jail phone number is: 304-527-1211

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls are split 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 Follansbee Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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