Selma Police Jail

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The Selma Police Jail is located at 1300 Alabama Avenue in Selma, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Selma Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything you might need to know about the Selma Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips that you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Selma Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Selma Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get information for anybody arrested and processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their inmate information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Selma Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Selma Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call so you can call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process will take anywhere between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate must determine the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Selma Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s name to the Selma Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be put in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

The Selma Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so you should call the jail at 334-874-2120 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Selma Police Jail you have to first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No mobile phones are allowed at Selma Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Selma Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Selma 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 Selma 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 Selma 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 believe you have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Dallas County jail website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket and any documents filed in your court case. You can access the court records online, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to the Dallas County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Selma Police Jail jail inmates change frequently, so you should review the Selma Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Selma 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 Selma Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 334-874-2120 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 Selma Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep 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 a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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 Selma Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 334-874-2120

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from 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 Selma 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 figuring 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail 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 Selma Police Jail, click the link below.

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