Bonita Police Jail

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The Bonita Police Jail is located at 15446 Bonita Avenue in Bonita, LA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Bonita Police Department.

This page will tell you info about everything you might want to know about the Bonita Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Bonita Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Bonita Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Bonita Police Jail Inmate List is a roster of individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting hours. You can find information on anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Bonita Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Bonita Police Jail includes these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First you must answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to make a telephone call to call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

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 you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process takes anywhere between 15 minutes to all day long. So, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge needs to figure out the bail amount. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, you should plan to get discharged that morning.

Bonita Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must provide each visitor’s name to the Bonita Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide identification. Visitors arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so make sure that you call the facility at 318-823-2811 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Bonita Police Jail you must first be on their visitation list.

Be 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 are allowed at Bonita Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must 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 of age and is not a family member of 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 Bonita Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Bonita 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 Bonita 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 Bonita 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 can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get 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 Morehouse Parish jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Morehouse Parish Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail might change, so you should double check the Bonita Police Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Bonita 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 Bonita Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 318-823-2811 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 Bonita Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need 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 inmates can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Bonita Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Bonita Police Jail phone number is: 318-823-2811

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits 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 Bonita 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 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone 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 Bonita Police Jail, click the link below.

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