Comanche County Detention

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The Comanche County Detention is located at 315 SW 5th Street in Lawton, OK and is a medium security county jail operated by the Commanche County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about everything related to the Comanche County Detention, such as how to find an inmate at the Comanche County Detention, 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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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information that you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a question, just ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Comanche County Detention Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Comanche County Detention Inmate List is an online list of people who are in jail, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find information on anybody arrested and booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Comanche County Detention Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Comanche County Detention takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First you will have to answer some questions, such as your legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, it will depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge still needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, you should expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Comanche County Detention Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Comanche County Detention before you can visit. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. All visitors has to provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Comanche County Detention visitation procedures can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (580) 250-1902 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Comanche County Detention you must be on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Comanche County Detention, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If a 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Comanche County Detention. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Comanche County Detention 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 Comanche County Detention. 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 Comanche County Detention 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the court records on the Commanche County court website or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local 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 possibly an arrest date, contact the Commanche County jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access your court records on the website, or at the Commanche County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from another state. You can go to the Commanche County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history 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 crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates at the Comanche County Detention change frequently, so it would be best to double check the Comanche County Detention website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Comanche County Detention

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 Comanche County Detention uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (580) 250-1902 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 Comanche County Detention store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

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

The only phone calls that Comanche County Detention inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to 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 are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (580) 250-1902

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all 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 Comanche County Detention. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 learning how to lower 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t 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 or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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