Forest Police Jail

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The Forest Police Jail is located at 850 Park Road in Forest, MS and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Forest Police Department.

This page tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Forest Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Scott County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might help others will be appreciated.

Forest Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Forest Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find information on anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate the information fast if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Forest Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Forest Police Jail includes the following steps:

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

The first step is that you will have to answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you make a phone call so you can call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process takes anywhere from 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will be freed. It also can depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Forest Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give information about each visitor to the Forest Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

The Forest Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at 601-469-4141 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Forest Police Jail you have to first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones at Forest Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Forest Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Forest 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 Forest 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 Forest 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 think you have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the website or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible 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 court docket and any filings and documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from other states. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail at the Forest Police Jail change frequently, so you should check the Forest Police Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Forest 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 Forest Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 601-469-4141 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 Forest Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember 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 products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products like 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

All phone calls from the Forest Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are much 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 you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 601-469-4141

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all 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 Forest 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 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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