Caldwell Parish Correctional Center

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The Caldwell Parish Correctional Center is located at 671 Highway 845 in Grayson, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Caldwell Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Caldwell Parish Correctional Center
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Caldwell Parish Correctional Center
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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you info that you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and any comments or tips that could help others is much appreciated.

Caldwell Parish Correctional Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Caldwell Parish Correctional Center Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can get info about anyone arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information fast if you’ve got their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Caldwell Parish Correctional Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you must answer a number of questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call so you can call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it will depend on whether you have a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to determine how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, plan to get released in the morning.

Caldwell Parish Correctional Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor will have to provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the facility at (318) 649-5600 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center 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 when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 magazines to an inmate at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center 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 Caldwell Parish Correctional Center. 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 Caldwell Parish Correctional Center 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the court records on the Caldwell Parish jail website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the Caldwell Parish Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of people’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to the Caldwell Parish Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates are always changing, so it would be best to check the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Caldwell Parish Correctional Center

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 Caldwell Parish Correctional Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (318) 649-5600 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 Caldwell Parish Correctional Center store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

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

The only phone calls that Caldwell Parish Correctional Center inmates are allowed to make 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 you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Caldwell Parish Correctional Center phone number is: (318) 649-5600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all 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 Caldwell Parish Correctional Center. 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, click the link below.

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