Smackover Police Jail

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The Smackover Police Jail is located at 201 East 7Th Street in Smackover, AR and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Smackover Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Smackover Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Smackover Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, just ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Smackover Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Smackover Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting schedule. You can find information about anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information quicker if you have their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Smackover Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Smackover Police Jail includes each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process may take between 30 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. It also depends on if you have a cash bond or if the magistrate must figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the date of your release, plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Smackover Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Smackover Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will go into the log as an approved visitor. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Smackover Police Jail frequently change, so you should call the official Smackover Police Jail at 870-725-3571 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Smackover Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Smackover Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Smackover Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Smackover 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 Smackover 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 Smackover 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, you can check the court records on the Union County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that contains a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records online, or at the Union County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail can change at any time, so it would be best to check the Smackover Police Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Smackover 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 Smackover Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 870-725-3571 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 Smackover Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Smackover Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone calls may be limited or forbidden.

Phone Number: 870-725-3571

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 off of all of the 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 Smackover Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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