La Salle County Jail

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The La Salle County Jail is located at 703 North Main Street in Cotulla, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything you might want to know about the La Salle County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the La Salle County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give advice and information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and any comments or tips that could be a benefit to others will be welcome.

La Salle County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The La Salle County Jail Inmate Lookup has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their inmate information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

La Salle County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the La Salle County Jail includes each of the following steps:

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

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

They will allow you to make a telephone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released can depend on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a release date, expect to be released in the morning.

La Salle County Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide each visitor’s name to the La Salle County Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put into a Visiting log as an authorized 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 able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at La Salle County Jail can change, so it would be wise to call the official La Salle County Jail at (830) 879 3041 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the La Salle County Jail you have to be on this person’s approved 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 are allowed at La Salle County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the 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 the 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the La Salle County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the La Salle 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 La Salle 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 La Salle 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 an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the LaSalle County jail website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file that includes a docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access court records on the internet, or at the LaSalle County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to review the La Salle County Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at La Salle 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 La Salle County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (830) 879 3041 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 La Salle County Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 La Salle County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot pricier than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should 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, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The La Salle County Jail phone number is: (830) 879 3041

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 La Salle 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 finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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