Henry County Jail

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The Henry County Jail is located at 311 West Center Street in Cambridge, IL and is a medium security county jail operated by the Henry County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Henry County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Henry County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Henry County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information and advice that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that would help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Henry County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Henry County Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get the same information for anybody arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information fast if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Henry County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Henry County Jail includes each of these steps:

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

First you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, home address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged takes anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. It also depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged in the morning.

Henry County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s full name to the Henry County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so call the official Henry County Jail at (309) 937-3940 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Henry County Jail you must first be added to their visitation list.

Be 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 without it.

No mobile phones at Henry County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. 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 visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Henry County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry 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 check the arrest warrants on the website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Henry County jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket sheet and all of the documents filed in the case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Henry County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail is likely to change, so it would be best to review the Henry County Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Henry 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 Henry County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (309) 937-3940 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 Henry County Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need 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 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 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 Henry County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much 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 that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Henry County Jail phone number is: (309) 937-3940

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Henry County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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