Douglas County Jail

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The Douglas County Jail is located at 1625 8th Street in Minden, NV and is a medium security county jail operated by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Douglas County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Douglas County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and advice that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Douglas County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Douglas County Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to get information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Douglas County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Douglas County Jail is made up of the following steps:

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

First, you will answer some questions, like your full legal name, address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own 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 finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Douglas County Jail Visitation

The inmate have to list each visitor’s full name to the Douglas County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitation log for the inmate. Each visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Douglas County Jail change often, so we suggest that you call the facility at (775) 782-9921 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Douglas County Jail you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Douglas County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 of age and is not related to the inmate, the minor 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 Douglas County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Douglas 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 Douglas 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 Douglas 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, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Douglas County court website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Douglas County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in your case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

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

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Douglas County Jail jail inmates are always changing, so check the Douglas County Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Douglas 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 Douglas County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (775) 782-9921 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 Douglas County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Douglas County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or totally denied.

The Douglas County Jail phone number is: (775) 782-9921

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of 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 Douglas County Jail. 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 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 lower 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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