Dekalb County Jail

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The Dekalb County Jail is located at 4425 Memorial Drive in Decatur, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the De Kalb County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about anything you might need to know about the Dekalb County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Dekalb County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find De Kalb County court records, and everything else.

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4. Dekalb County Jail Visitation Rules
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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Dekalb County Jail
7. Dekalb County Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Dekalb County Jail
10. How to Search De Kalb County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that could help others will be welcome.

Dekalb County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Dekalb County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of people who are in jail, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get info for anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get the information more quickly if you have their name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Dekalb County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Dekalb County Jail includes each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 30 minutes to all day long. In other words the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. It also will depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Dekalb County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Dekalb County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Dekalb County Jail are always changing, so make sure that you call the facility at (404) 298-8500 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Dekalb County Jail you must be on their visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Dekalb County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 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 Dekalb County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Dekalb 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 Dekalb 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 Dekalb 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 think you have a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the court records online or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Keep in mind 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 a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the De Kalb County jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, 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 process for sending funds to people in jail is likely to change, so you should review the Dekalb County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Dekalb 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 Dekalb County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (404) 298-8500 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 Dekalb County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably 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 purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Dekalb County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden.

Phone Number: (404) 298-8500

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Dekalb 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 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. 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 cases like this, the jail or prison 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 Dekalb County Jail, click the link below.

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