Ellis County Detention Center

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The Ellis County Detention Center is located at 2105 West 12th Street in Hays, KS and is a medium security county jail operated by the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Ellis County Detention Center, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and lots more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Ellis County Detention Center
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Ellis County Detention Center
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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information that you’ll need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that could help others will be welcome.

Ellis County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ellis County Detention Center Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get the same information for anyone processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Ellis County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Ellis County Detention Center includes each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first step is that you must answer some simple questions, such as what is your legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to make a telephone call in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you 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

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge must determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Ellis County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give each visitor’s name to the Ellis County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitors will go in the visitors log for the inmate. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Ellis County Detention Center visitation procedures can change, so we suggest that you call the facility at (785) 625-1050 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Ellis County Detention Center you have to first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Ellis County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 magazines to an inmate at the Ellis County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ellis County Detention 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 Ellis County Detention 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 Ellis County Detention 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 check the court records online or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Ellis County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file containing a docket and any of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the Ellis County Detention Center are always changing, so you should double check the Ellis County Detention Center site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ellis County Detention 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 Ellis County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (785) 625-1050 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 Ellis County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want 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 purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These products 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

All phone calls from the Ellis County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear 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, phone calls may be limited or totally denied.

Phone Number: (785) 625-1050

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 get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Ellis County Detention 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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