Lipscomb County Detention Center

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The Lipscomb County Detention Center is located at 910 North Tyus Street in Groesbeck, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lipscomb County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you info about anything you might want to know about the Lipscomb County Detention Center, like how to find an inmate at the Lipscomb County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have a question, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that could help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Lipscomb County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lipscomb County Detention Center Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to get the same information on anybody arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can get their arrest information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Lipscomb County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lipscomb County Detention Center takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

You will answer some simple questions, such as what is your legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a cash bond or if the judge needs to determine the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Lipscomb County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to list each visitor’s full name to the Lipscomb County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitors will be entered in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Lipscomb County Detention Center at (254) 729-8615 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Lipscomb County Detention Center you must first have your name on their visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Lipscomb County Detention Center, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 magazines to an inmate at the Lipscomb County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the website or call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. 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 Lipscomb County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file containing a docket sheet and all of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access the court records online, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. 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 different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates at the Lipscomb County Detention Center are always changing, so be sure to visit the Lipscomb County Detention Center site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (254) 729-8615 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 Lipscomb County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products such as 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 Lipscomb County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden.

The Lipscomb County Detention Center phone number is: (254) 729-8615

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Lipscomb County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to lower 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails 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 so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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