Grapeland Police Jail

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The Grapeland Police Jail is located at 126 South Oak Street in Grapeland, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Grapeland Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything you might want to know about the Grapeland Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Grapeland Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find Houston County court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and advice you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that could be a benefit to others would be appreciated.

Grapeland Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grapeland Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you are able to get info about anybody processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get their arrest information fast if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Grapeland Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

The first step is that you have to answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. This process takes from 30 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you have a bond amount or if the magistrate must figure out how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, you should plan to get discharged that morning.

Grapeland Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Grapeland Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into the visitors log as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 936-687-2115 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Grapeland Police Jail you have to first have your name on their approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Grapeland Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Grapeland Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grapeland 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 Grapeland 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 Grapeland 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Houston County jail website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Houston County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a court docket and all documents filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to the Houston County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Grapeland Police Jail could change, so review the Grapeland Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grapeland 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 Grapeland Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 936-687-2115 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 Grapeland Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products such as 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 Grapeland Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Grapeland Police Jail phone number is: 936-687-2115

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Grapeland Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, 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 so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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