Montgomery County Jail

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The Montgomery County Jail is located at 41 North Perry Street in Dayton, OH and is a medium security county jail operated by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything you might want to know about the Montgomery County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Montgomery County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info that you’ll need to make the process less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Montgomery County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Montgomery County Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find information about anybody arrested and booked or released within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information faster if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Montgomery County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full name, address, birth date and contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call in order 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 will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Montgomery County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s full name to the Montgomery County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will go in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so it would be wise to call the jail at (937) 224-8447 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Montgomery County Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Montgomery County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anyone on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Montgomery County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 for your arrest, you are able to check the court records on the Montgomery County jail website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Montgomery County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access the court records online, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates can change at any time, so be sure to review the Montgomery County Jail website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Montgomery 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 Montgomery County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (937) 224-8447 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 Montgomery County Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Montgomery County Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely.

The Montgomery County Jail phone number is: (937) 224-8447

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all 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 Montgomery County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call 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 cases like this, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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