Lafayette County Jail

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The Lafayette County Jail is located at 711 Jackson Avenue in Oxford, MS and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you info about everything related to the Lafayette County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Lafayette County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Lafayette County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Lafayette County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lafayette County Jail Inmate List is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find info for anybody booked or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate the information quicker if you enter their full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Lafayette County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lafayette County Jail takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you make a telephone call in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes between 15 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will be freed. Also, it can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a judge must determine the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get released that morning.

Lafayette County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s full name to the Lafayette County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitation log as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Lafayette County Jail change often, so you should call the facility at (662) 236-0214 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Lafayette County Jail you have to first be on their visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Lafayette County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons 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 going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 under the age of 18 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 Lafayette County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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 believe you have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants online or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on the website, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Lafayette County Jail change frequently, so check the Lafayette County Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lafayette 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 Lafayette County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (662) 236-0214 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 Lafayette County Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, 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 enough money in their account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Lafayette County Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls may be limited or totally denied.

Phone Number: (662) 236-0214

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Lafayette County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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