Minidoka County Justice Center

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The Minidoka County Justice Center is located at 724 H Street in Rupert, ID and is a medium security county jail operated by the Minidoka County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Minidoka County Justice Center, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Minidoka County Justice Center, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information and advice that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that would be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Minidoka County Justice Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Minidoka County Justice Center Inmate List is a roster of people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information about anybody booked or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Minidoka County Justice Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Minidoka County Justice Center includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to use the phone so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged can take anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you have a bond amount or if the magistrate has to determine the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Minidoka County Justice Center Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide each visitor’s name to the Minidoka County Justice Center before anyone can visit them. This information will go in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. All visitors has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Minidoka County Justice Center visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the facility at (208) 434-2324 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Minidoka County Justice Center you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Minidoka County Justice Center, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not approved.

If a 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Minidoka County Justice Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Minidoka County Justice 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 Minidoka County Justice 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 Minidoka County Justice 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 think you might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the website or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s 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 an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you 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 find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Minidoka County Justice Center jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to visit the Minidoka County Justice Center site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Minidoka County Justice 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 Minidoka County Justice Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (208) 434-2324 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 Minidoka County Justice Center store. You can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Minidoka County Justice Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Minidoka County Justice Center phone number is: (208) 434-2324

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, 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 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 Minidoka County Justice Center. 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 state prisons and local jails learning 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, 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 jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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