Habersham County Detention Center

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The Habersham County Detention Center is located at 1000 Detention Drive in Clarksville, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Habersham County Sheriff’s Department.

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

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give advice and information that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and also any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Habersham County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Habersham County Detention Center Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get info on anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information quicker if you enter their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Habersham County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Habersham County Detention Center is made up of the following steps:

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

The first step is that you have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call in order 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 be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. This process can take from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will be freed. Also, it depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge must decide on your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Habersham County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Habersham County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. All visitors is required to provide identification. Visitors arriving late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Habersham County Detention Center visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at (706) 754-6666 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Habersham County Detention Center you must first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Habersham County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not 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 old 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Habersham County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Habersham 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 Habersham 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 Habersham 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 think you have an outstanding warrant, you can access court records online or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear 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 the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file containing a court docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail change frequently, so you should check the Habersham County Detention Center site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Habersham 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 Habersham County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (706) 754-6666 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 Habersham County Detention Center store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

The only phone calls that Habersham County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls may be limited or forbidden.

The Habersham County Detention Center phone number is: (706) 754-6666

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all inmate phone calls 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 Habersham 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 things 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 finding out how to decrease 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, 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 Habersham County Detention Center, click the link below.

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