Monteagle Police Jail

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The Monteagle Police Jail is located at 173 College Street in Monteagle, TN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Monteagle Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything one might want to know about the Monteagle Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Monteagle Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer info you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Monteagle Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Monteagle Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get info about anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information faster if you have their full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Monteagle Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Monteagle Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you must answer a number of questions, like what is your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the telephone so you can call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. This process will take between 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate must figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and have a release date, you should expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Monteagle Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide information about each visitor to the Monteagle Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will be entered into the visitation log for the requesting inmate. All visitors will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the jail at 931-924-2077 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Monteagle Police Jail you have to first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Monteagle Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Monteagle Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Monteagle 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 Monteagle 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 Monteagle 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 find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Grundy County court website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and all documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at the Grundy County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates can change at any time, so review the Monteagle Police Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Monteagle 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 Monteagle Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 931-924-2077 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 Monteagle Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep 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 a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These products 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 Monteagle Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Monteagle Police Jail phone number is: 931-924-2077

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all phone calls that inmates make 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 Monteagle Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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. In some cases, 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 cases like this, the jail 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 Monteagle Police Jail, click the link below.

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