Barton County Jail

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The Barton County Jail is located at 1010 Cherry Street in Lamar, MO and is a medium security county jail operated by the Barton County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Barton County Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information that you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or tips that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Barton County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Barton County Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find information about anybody who has been arrested or released within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Barton County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Barton County Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

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

You will answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged will take from 30 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released depends on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Barton County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s full name to the Barton County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be entered into a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors showing up late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Barton County Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so call the jail at (417) 682-5541 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Barton County Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones at Barton County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Barton County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Barton 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 Barton 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 Barton 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the Barton County court website or call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to the Barton County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail change frequently, so be sure to double check the Barton County Jail website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Barton 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 Barton County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (417) 682-5541 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 Barton County Jail store. You can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Barton County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Barton County Jail phone number is: (417) 682-5541

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 of the 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 Barton County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 figuring out how to lower 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 won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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