Clarke County Jail

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The Clarke County Jail is located at 101 S Archusa Avenue in Quitman, MS and is a medium security county jail operated by the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about anything related to the Clarke County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Clarke County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer info that you need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and any tips or comments that might help others would be appreciated.

Clarke County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Clarke County Jail Inmate List has information about individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to get information about anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Clarke County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Clarke County Jail is made up of these steps:

They’ll put you 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 have to answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process takes anywhere from 15 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Clarke County Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Clarke County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the facility at (601) 776-5252 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Clarke County Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Clarke County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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, 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 Clarke County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Clarke 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 Clarke 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 Clarke 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 check arrest warrants inquiry on the Clarke County court website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, 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, by phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and this information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from other states. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates at the Clarke County Jail are always changing, so you should visit the Clarke County Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Clarke 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 Clarke County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (601) 776-5252 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 Clarke County Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Clarke County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are usually pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (601) 776-5252

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Clarke 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 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 learning 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 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 therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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