Hanson County Jail

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The Hanson County Jail is located at 720 5th Street in Alexandria, SD and is a medium security county jail operated by the Hanson County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Hanson County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Hanson County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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

This guide is designed to give info you need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and also any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Hanson County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hanson County Jail Inmate Lookup has information about people who have been arrested and are in custody, including status, and schedule for visitation. You can get information about anybody processed or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Hanson County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Hanson County Jail takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a number of questions, such as what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process can take between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Hanson County Jail Visitation

The inmate need to list each visitor’s full name to the Hanson County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will go into the visitation log for the inmate. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Hanson County Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Hanson County Jail at (605) 239-4409 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Hanson County Jail you have to have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Hanson County Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, this 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Hanson County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hanson 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 Hanson 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 Hanson 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 for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the Hanson County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Hanson County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access court records online, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Hanson County Jail jail inmates are always changing, so double check the Hanson County Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hanson 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 Hanson County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (605) 239-4409 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 Hanson County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind 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 an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Hanson County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are generally more expensive than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone calls might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (605) 239-4409

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls are split 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 Hanson County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 state prisons and local jails finding 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 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 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 or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Hanson County Jail, click the link below.

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