Rawlins County Jail

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The Rawlins County Jail is located at 607 Main Street in Atwood, KS and is a medium security county jail operated by the Rawlins County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Rawlins County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Rawlins County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and advice that you need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that would help others would be much appreciated.

Rawlins County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Rawlins County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who have been arrested, including current status, and schedule for visitation. You can get info on anyone arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to get their inmate information quicker if you enter their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Rawlins County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Rawlins County Jail includes each of these 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 step is that you must answer some simple questions, such as what is your full legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process takes from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged. It also might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Rawlins County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to list information about each visitor to the Rawlins County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the visitors log for the inmate. Each visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at (785) 626-3208 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Rawlins County Jail you must first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Rawlins County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of 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 Rawlins County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Rawlins 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 Rawlins 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 Rawlins 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the Rawlins County jail website or call the court directly. 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. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Rawlins County jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records 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. These records include a case file containing a docket and all of the documents filed in the case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at the Rawlins County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Rawlins County Jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you check the Rawlins County Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Rawlins 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 Rawlins County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (785) 626-3208 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 Rawlins County Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind 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 an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Rawlins County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden.

The Rawlins County Jail phone number is: (785) 626-3208

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from 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 Rawlins County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 can be 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 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 jail has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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