Greene County Jail

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The Greene County Jail is located at 77 East Market Street in Xenia, OH and is a medium security county jail operated by the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Greene County Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and advice you need to make going to jail easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Greene County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Greene County Jail Inmate Locator has information about people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. You can also get the same information for anyone booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to get the information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Greene County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Greene County Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some questions, such as your full legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone to call 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 your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, you should plan to be released that morning.

Greene County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Greene County Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will go in the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Greene County Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the jail at (937) 562-4840 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Greene County Jail you have to be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Greene County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 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 Greene County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Greene County jail website or 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. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Greene County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file that contains a docket and any documents filed in your case. You can access the court records online, or at the Greene County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to the Greene County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates might change, so you should review the Greene County Jail site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Greene 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 Greene County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (937) 562-4840 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 Greene County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Greene County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

The Greene County Jail phone number is: (937) 562-4840

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly 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 Greene County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where 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 these cases, the jail 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 Greene County Jail, click the link below.

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