Homedale Police Jail

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The Homedale Police Jail is located at 31 West Wyoming Avenue in Homedale, ID and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Homedale Police Department.

This site tells you info about everything one might want to know about the Homedale Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Homedale Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Owyhee County court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information you need to make the process easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that could help others will be welcome.

Homedale Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Homedale Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting hours. You can find the same information about anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information quicker if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Homedale Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Homedale Police Jail includes these steps:

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

First, you must answer some questions, such as your legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged takes from 15 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Homedale Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Homedale Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so call the jail at 208-337-4642 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Homedale Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones at Homedale Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not related to the inmate, the minor 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 magazines to an inmate at the Homedale Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Homedale 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 Homedale 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 Homedale 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 access court records on the Owyhee County jail website or call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken 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, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a case file containing a court docket and all filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to the Owyhee County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail change frequently, so visit the Homedale Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Homedale 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 Homedale Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 208-337-4642 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 Homedale Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Homedale Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: 208-337-4642

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all 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 Homedale 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 things 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 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 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. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility 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 Homedale Police Jail, click the link below.

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