Phelps County Jail

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The Phelps County Jail is located at 715 5th Avenue in Holdrege, NE and is a medium security county jail operated by the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Phelps County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and any comments or tips that would be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Phelps County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Phelps County Jail Inmate List is a list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can find information about anybody booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Phelps County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Phelps County Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed 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 will have to answer some simple questions, like your legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it depends on if you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Phelps County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Phelps County Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into the visitation log as an approved visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

The Phelps County Jail visitation procedures change often, so call the official Phelps County Jail at (308) 995-5692 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Phelps County Jail you have to first be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Phelps County Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 old 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 Phelps County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Phelps 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 Phelps 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 Phelps 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 can check the court records on the website or call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that contains a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Phelps County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates change frequently, so we suggest that you double check the Phelps County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Phelps 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 Phelps County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (308) 995-5692 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 Phelps County Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep 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 an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Phelps County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls might get reduced or totally denied.

Phone Number: (308) 995-5692

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control 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 Phelps County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility 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 Phelps County Jail, click the link below.

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