Harrison County Jail

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The Harrison County Jail is located at 111 South 1st Avenue in Logan, IA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Harrison County Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Harrison County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you advice and information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, just ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Harrison County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Harrison County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. You can find the same information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Harrison County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Harrison County Jail includes these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as 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’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call so you can call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes between 15 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a discharge date, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Harrison County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to provide information about each visitor to the Harrison County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s information will be put into a log of approved visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Harrison County Jail change often, so make sure that you call the facility at (712) 644-2244 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Harrison County Jail you must first have your name on their visitation list.

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

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

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Harrison County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Harrison 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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 check the arrest warrants on the Harrison County jail website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Bear 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, as well as their arrest date, contact the Harrison County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to the Harrison County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail change frequently, so double check the Harrison County Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Harrison 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 Harrison County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (712) 644-2244 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 Harrison County Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to use 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 money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Harrison County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (712) 644-2244

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the 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 Harrison County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail 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 Harrison County Jail, click the link below.

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