Howard County Detention Center

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The Howard County Detention Center is located at 7301 Waterloo Road in Jessup, MD and is a medium security county jail operated by the Howard County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Howard County Detention Center, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the info you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Howard County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Howard County Detention Center Inmate Search is an online list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get information about anybody booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information quicker if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Howard County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Howard County Detention Center takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or 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 questions, like what is your full legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you make a telephone call in order to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will be freed. Also, it depends on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged in the morning.

Howard County Detention Center Visitation

Inmates have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Howard County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be put into the visitation log as an approved visitor. Each visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the official Howard County Detention Center at (410) 313-5200 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Howard County Detention Center you have to be added to their visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Howard County Detention Center, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 related to the inmate, the minor 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 Howard County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Howard 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 Howard 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 Howard 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file containing a docket and all documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the website, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to county 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 entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail at the Howard County Detention Center might change, so it would be best to review the Howard County Detention Center website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Howard 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 Howard County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (410) 313-5200 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 Howard County Detention Center store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products 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

The only phone calls that Howard County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (410) 313-5200

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 get to set 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 Howard County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Howard County Detention Center, click the link below.

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