Floyd County Jail

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The Floyd County Jail is located at 101 South Main Street in Charles City, IA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you info about everything related to the Floyd County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give advice and information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Floyd County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Floyd County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find info on anybody booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their arrest information faster if you have their first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Floyd County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Floyd County Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed 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 have to answer some basic questions, such as what is your legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might 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 jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge must decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the date of your release, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Floyd County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to provide each visitor’s name to the Floyd County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so call the jail at (641) 257-6217 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Floyd County Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Floyd County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Floyd 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 Floyd 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 Floyd 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 might have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Floyd County court website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Floyd County jail, by phone, go there 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. These records include a case file that contains a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access your court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from other states. You are able to go to the Floyd County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Floyd County Jail change frequently, so review the Floyd County Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Floyd 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 Floyd County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (641) 257-6217 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 Floyd County Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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 Floyd County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated completely.

The Floyd County Jail phone number is: (641) 257-6217

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Floyd County Jail. The prices 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 finding out how to lower 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 a lot of money 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 money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison 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 Floyd County Jail, click the link below.

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