Lowndes County Jail

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The Lowndes County Jail is located at 120 Prison Farm Road in Valdosta, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything a person needs to know about the Lowndes County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Lowndes County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Lowndes County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lowndes County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get information about anyone processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate the information fast if you enter their full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Lowndes County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Lowndes County Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you must answer some questions, like your full name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and also, 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, Any property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call in order to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Lowndes County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to give each visitor’s name to the Lowndes County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at (229) 671-2900 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Lowndes County Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Lowndes County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. 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 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, 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 Lowndes County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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 on the Lowndes County jail website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Lowndes County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and all documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from other states. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Lowndes County Jail inmates might change, so you should double check the Lowndes County Jail site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lowndes 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 Lowndes County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (229) 671-2900 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 Lowndes County Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

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

All phone calls from the Lowndes County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about 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 totally denied.

The Lowndes County Jail phone number is: (229) 671-2900

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Lowndes County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 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 significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t 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 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 Lowndes County Jail, click the link below.

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