Henagar Police Jail

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The Henagar Police Jail is located at 17898 State Highway 75 in Henagar, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Henagar Police Department.

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

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer advice and information that you’ll need to make the process easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Henagar Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Henagar Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find info for anyone arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Henagar Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Henagar Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you will answer some simple questions, such as your full legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone 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 be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. This process will take between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will be released. Also, it depends on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Henagar Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list information about each visitor to the Henagar Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so you should call the facility at 256-657-3231 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Henagar Police Jail you must have your name on this person’s 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 Henagar Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Henagar Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Henagar 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 Henagar 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 Henagar 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 arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Dekalb County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at the Dekalb County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are connected and you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will 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 crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Henagar Police Jail inmates could change, so be sure to visit the Henagar Police Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Henagar 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 Henagar Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 256-657-3231 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 Henagar Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary daily, 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 money in their commissary account. These products 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

The only phone calls that Henagar Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 256-657-3231

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every 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 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 Henagar Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning 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 inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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