Coshocton County Justice Center

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The Coshocton County Justice Center is located at 328 Chestnut Street in Coshocton, OH and is a medium security county jail operated by the Coshocton County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about anything you might need to know about the Coshocton County Justice Center, 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 much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a question, just ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that could be beneficial to others will be appreciated.

Coshocton County Justice Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Coshocton County Justice Center Inmate Roster has information about people who are in jail, which includes current status, and times you can visit. You can get info about anyone arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information quicker if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Coshocton County Justice Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Coshocton County Justice Center includes each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you must answer some basic questions, such as what is your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will get to use the telephone to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process may take between 15 minutes to all day long. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether you have a bond amount or if the judge still needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Coshocton County Justice Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Coshocton County Justice Center in advance. Your visitors will be put in a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. All visitors has to provide identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Coshocton County Justice Center visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the jail at (740) 622-2411 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Coshocton County Justice Center you have to be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Coshocton County Justice Center, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Coshocton County Justice Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Coshocton County Justice 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 Coshocton County Justice 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 Coshocton County Justice 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and any filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at the Coshocton County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Coshocton County Justice Center jail inmates are always changing, so it would be best to review the Coshocton County Justice Center site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Coshocton County Justice 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 Coshocton County Justice Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (740) 622-2411 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 Coshocton County Justice Center store. You can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary 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

The only phone calls that Coshocton County Justice Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear 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 may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Coshocton County Justice Center phone number is: (740) 622-2411

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make 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 Coshocton County Justice Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 finding out how to decrease 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 a lot of money on calling 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 facility 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 Coshocton County Justice Center, click the link below.

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