Kirby Police Jail

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The Kirby Police Jail is located at 4130 Ackerman Road in Kirby, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Kirby Police Department.

This page tells you info about anything you might need to know about the Kirby Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Kirby Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and much much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the info that you’ll need to make the process a little less stressful. 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 be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Kirby Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Kirby Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find info for anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Kirby Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Kirby Police Jail includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call in order to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take between 10 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, it can depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge must figure out the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Kirby Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Kirby Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will go in the visitors log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so call the jail at 210-661-8515 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Kirby Police Jail you have to be on their visitation list.

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

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

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they must 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Kirby Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Kirby 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 Kirby 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 Kirby 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 access court records online or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Bexar County jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, 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 are always changing, so be sure to check the Kirby Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Kirby 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 Kirby Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 210-661-8515 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 Kirby Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Kirby Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted 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 lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or eliminated altogether.

The Kirby Police Jail phone number is: 210-661-8515

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Kirby Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 is 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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