Benton County Jail

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The Benton County Jail is located at 116 North Rosemary Avenue in Camden, TN and is a medium security county jail operated by the Benton County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Benton County Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information that you’ll need to make going to jail easier. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Benton County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Benton County Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find info for anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to get their arrest information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Benton County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

The first step is that you will answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, street address, birthdate and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take between 30 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if the judge has to determine the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Benton County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Benton County Jail in advance of the visit. This information will go in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies can change, so call the jail at (731) 584-6208 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Benton County Jail you must first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones at Benton County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. 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 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Benton County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Benton 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 Benton 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 Benton 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, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to the Benton County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates at the Benton County Jail are always changing, so we suggest that you review the Benton County Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Benton 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 Benton County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (731) 584-6208 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 Benton County Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Benton County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (731) 584-6208

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from 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 Benton County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly 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 jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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