Alleghany County Jail

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The Alleghany County Jail is located at 40 Alleghany Street in Sparta, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Allegany County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Alleghany County Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Alleghany County Jail
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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and tips you need to make going to jail easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to others is appreciated.

Alleghany County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Alleghany County Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information about anyone booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Alleghany County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Alleghany County Jail is made up of each of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some questions, like your legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process will take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released might depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, plan to get discharged that morning.

Alleghany County Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Alleghany County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Alleghany County Jail frequently change, so call the facility at (336) 372-4455 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Alleghany County Jail you must first have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Alleghany County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Alleghany County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Alleghany County 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 Alleghany County 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 Alleghany County 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 on the Allegany County jail website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access your court records on their website, or at the Allegany County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Alleghany County Jail jail inmates is likely to change, so be sure to double check the Alleghany County Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Alleghany County 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 Alleghany County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (336) 372-4455 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 Alleghany County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably 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 products that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Alleghany County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about 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 break the rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: (336) 372-4455

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 get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls 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 Alleghany County Jail. The prices 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 lower 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, 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 Alleghany County Jail, click the link below.

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