Goddard Police Jail

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The Goddard Police Jail is located at 118 North Main Street in Goddard, KS and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Goddard Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Goddard Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Goddard Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Goddard Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Goddard Police Jail Inmate List is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get info on anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information faster if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Goddard Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Goddard Police Jail takes you through these steps:

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

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

You will get to make a telephone call to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process takes anywhere between 30 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Goddard Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to give information about each visitor to the Goddard Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be entered in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Goddard Police Jail can change, so we suggest that you call the official Goddard Police Jail at 316-794-2051 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Goddard Police Jail you have to be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Goddard Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a 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 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 Goddard Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Goddard 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 Goddard 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 Goddard 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Sedgwick County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to the Sedgwick County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail at the Goddard Police Jail are always changing, so we suggest that you review the Goddard Police Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Goddard 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 Goddard Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 316-794-2051 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 Goddard Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Goddard Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges may be limited or forbidden.

The Goddard Police Jail phone number is: 316-794-2051

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make 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 Goddard Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where 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 phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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