Pittsylvania County Jail

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The Pittsylvania County Jail is located at 21 North Main Street in Chatham, VA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you info about anything you might want to know about the Pittsylvania County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Pittsylvania County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Pittsylvania County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Pittsylvania County Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get information on anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate the information fast if you have their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Pittsylvania County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Pittsylvania County Jail 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.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a number of questions, like your legal name, address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to make a telephone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. This process may take anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged might depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to figure out your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a release date, plan to get released in the morning.

Pittsylvania County Jail Visitation

The inmate need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Pittsylvania County Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the jail at (434) 432-7831 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Pittsylvania County Jail you have to first be on this person’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 at Pittsylvania County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 under the age of 18 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Pittsylvania County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Pittsylvania County jail website or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that contains a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Pittsylvania County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail are always changing, so visit the Pittsylvania County Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (434) 432-7831 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 Pittsylvania County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, 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 products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Pittsylvania County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated altogether.

The Pittsylvania County Jail phone number is: (434) 432-7831

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Pittsylvania County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not 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 jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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