Lane County Jail

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The Lane County Jail is located at 144 South Lane in Dighton, KS and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lane County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Lane County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Lane County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the info you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Lane County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lane County Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people currently in custody, including current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find the same information on anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate their arrest information faster if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Lane County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lane County Jail is made up of these steps:

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

First you have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get let go. Also, it might depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if a judge needs to figure out the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Lane County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Lane County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Lane County Jail are always changing, so you should call the facility at (620) 397-2828 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Lane County Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Lane County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If the 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 younger than 18 years old and is not related to 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 Lane County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lane 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 Lane 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 Lane 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, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Lane County court website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket and all documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Lane County Jail change frequently, so you should review the Lane County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lane 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 Lane County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (620) 397-2828 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 Lane County Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection 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, 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

All phone calls from the Lane County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Lane County Jail phone number is: (620) 397-2828

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Lane County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 state prisons and local 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 calling 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 will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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