Bath County Jail

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The Bath County Jail is located at 85 Courthouse Hill Road in Warm Springs, VA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Bath County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything you might want to know about the Bath County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Bath County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Bath County Jail
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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info that you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that might help other people in the same situation is welcome.

Bath County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Bath County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of individuals currently in custody, which includes current status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get information on anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate their inmate information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Bath County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Bath County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to use the phone in order to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take anywhere between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. It also can depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a judge has to decide on your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Bath County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Bath County Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be put into the log for the inmate. Every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Bath County Jail can change, so it would be wise to call the facility at (540) 839-2375 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Bath County Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Bath County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. 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 going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Bath County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Bath 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 Bath 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 Bath 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Bath County court website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Bath County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file containing a docket and all of the documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records online, or at the Bath County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to people in jail are always changing, so it would be best to check the Bath County Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Bath 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 Bath County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (540) 839-2375 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 Bath County Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably 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 purchase if they have enough money in their 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Bath County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are typically pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Bath County Jail phone number is: (540) 839-2375

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the 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 Bath County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local 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 calling 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. In some cases, we will not 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 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 Bath County Jail, click the link below.

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