Burnside Police Jail

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The Burnside Police Jail is located at 7968 South United States Highway 27 in Burnside, KY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Burnside Police Department.

This site tells you info about anything you might need to know about the Burnside Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, just ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Burnside Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Burnside Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get the same information for anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Burnside Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Burnside Police Jail includes each of these steps:

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

You will answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, birth date and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to make a phone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if a magistrate must determine how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Burnside Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Burnside Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be put in a log of approved visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Burnside Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so call the official Burnside Police Jail at 606-561-3405 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Burnside Police Jail you must have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Burnside Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not normally 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Burnside Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Burnside 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 Burnside 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 Burnside 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 can access arrest warrants on the Pulaski County court website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you 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, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that includes a court docket and all documents and filings filed in the case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at the Pulaski County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Burnside Police Jail is likely to change, so check the Burnside Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Burnside 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 Burnside Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 606-561-3405 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 Burnside Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably 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 items that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Burnside Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Burnside Police Jail phone number is: 606-561-3405

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits off of all of the 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 Burnside Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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