Palmhurst Police Jail

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The Palmhurst Police Jail is located at 4417 North Shary Road in Palmhurst, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Palmhurst Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Palmhurst Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Palmhurst Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information that you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Palmhurst Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Palmhurst Police Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find the same information for anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get the information fast if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Palmhurst Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Palmhurst Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some basic questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to make a phone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take from 10 minutes to all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. It also can depend on whether you have a cash bond or if the magistrate must determine how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Palmhurst Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must provide each visitor’s full name to the Palmhurst Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so you should call the official Palmhurst Police Jail at 956-519-3800 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Palmhurst Police Jail you have to first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Palmhurst Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 Palmhurst Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Palmhurst 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 Palmhurst 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 Palmhurst 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Hidalgo County court website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Hidalgo County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail are always changing, so check the Palmhurst Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Palmhurst 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 Palmhurst Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 956-519-3800 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 Palmhurst Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Palmhurst Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or totally denied.

The Palmhurst Police Jail phone number is: 956-519-3800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all 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 Palmhurst Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. 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 jail has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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