Box Butte County Jail

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The Box Butte County Jail is located at 512 Niobrara Avenue in Alliance, NE and is a medium security county jail operated by the Box Butte County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Box Butte County Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information that you’ll need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Box Butte County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Box Butte County Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals currently in custody, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get information on anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information quicker if you have their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Box Butte County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Box Butte County Jail includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer a number of questions, like what is your full name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to make a phone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing 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. This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate still needs to determine the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Box Butte County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Box Butte County Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in a log of visitors for the inmate. All visitors has to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors arriving late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Box Butte County Jail change often, so it would be wise to call the official Box Butte County Jail at (308) 762-6464 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Box Butte County Jail you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

Be 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 mobile phones are allowed at Box Butte County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Box Butte County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Box Butte 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 Box Butte 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 Box Butte 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 arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and all documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail could change, so it would be best to double check the Box Butte County Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Box Butte 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 Box Butte County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (308) 762-6464 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 Box Butte County Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds 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 Box Butte County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

The Box Butte County Jail phone number is: (308) 762-6464

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Box Butte County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to lower 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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