Central Regional Jail CRJ

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The Central Regional Jail CRJ is located at 300 Days Drive in Sutton, WV and is a medium security county jail operated by the Barbour County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about anything one might want to know about the Central Regional Jail CRJ, such as how to locate an inmate at the Central Regional Jail CRJ, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and tips you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and also any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Central Regional Jail CRJ Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Central Regional Jail CRJ Inmate Locator is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find the same information for anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information more quickly if you have their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Central Regional Jail CRJ Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Central Regional Jail CRJ takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process may take between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the release date, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Central Regional Jail CRJ Visitation

Inmates need to give each visitor’s name to the Central Regional Jail CRJ in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the visitation log as an approved visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the official Central Regional Jail CRJ at (304) 765-7904 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Central Regional Jail CRJ you have to be 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 cellphones are allowed at Central Regional Jail CRJ, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, this 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Central Regional Jail CRJ 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ. 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the court records on the website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that includes a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the website, or at the Barbour County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, 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 are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail might change, so it would be best to double check the Central Regional Jail CRJ site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Central Regional Jail CRJ

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 Central Regional Jail CRJ uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (304) 765-7904 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate 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 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates 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 and are disciplined, phone calls might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Central Regional Jail CRJ phone number is: (304) 765-7904

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t 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 facility has set their 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 Central Regional Jail CRJ, click the link below.

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