Johnson County Jail

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The Johnson County Jail is located at 511 South Capitol Street in Iowa City, IA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Johnson County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Johnson County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Johnson County Jail Inmate Roster has information about people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can also get information about anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get the information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Johnson County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Johnson County Jail takes you through these steps:

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

First, you will answer some basic questions, like your legal name, street address, birth date and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone so you can get in touch with 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 get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere between 15 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. It also depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate must determine your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a release date, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Johnson County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s name to the Johnson County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be entered into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures can change, so call the official Johnson County Jail at (319) 356-6025 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Johnson County Jail you must be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Johnson County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Johnson County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Johnson 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Johnson County court website or call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Johnson County jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Johnson County Jail might change, so be sure to review the Johnson County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Johnson 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 Johnson County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (319) 356-6025 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 Johnson County Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Johnson County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (319) 356-6025

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 Johnson County Jail. The prices 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 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not 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 Johnson County Jail, click the link below.

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