Evangeline Parish Prison

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The Evangeline Parish Prison is located at 200 Court Street in Ville Platte, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Evangeline Parish Prison, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Evangeline Parish Prison, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and also any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Evangeline Parish Prison Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Evangeline Parish Prison Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find the same information for anybody arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information quicker if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Evangeline Parish Prison Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Evangeline Parish Prison includes each of the following steps:

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

You have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to use the telephone to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate has to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a date of your release, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Evangeline Parish Prison Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Evangeline Parish Prison in advance. Your visitors will be put into the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor has to provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so call the official Evangeline Parish Prison at (337) 363-6664 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Evangeline Parish Prison you must first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones at Evangeline Parish Prison, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 under the age of 18 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 Evangeline Parish Prison. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Evangeline Parish Prison 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 Evangeline Parish Prison. 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 Evangeline Parish Prison 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 might have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the 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 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 the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access the court records online, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates can change at any time, so you should double check the Evangeline Parish Prison website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Evangeline Parish Prison

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 Evangeline Parish Prison uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (337) 363-6664 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 Evangeline Parish Prison store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Evangeline Parish Prison are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are typically more expensive than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions 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 might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Evangeline Parish Prison phone number is: (337) 363-6664

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits off of all 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 Evangeline Parish Prison. The prices 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Evangeline Parish Prison, click the link below.

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