Spink County Jail

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The Spink County Jail is located at 210 East 7th Avenue in Redfield, SD and is a medium security county jail operated by the Spink County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything you might need to know about the Spink County Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information that you’ll need to make the process easier. If you have questions, just ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others will be appreciated.

Spink County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Spink County Jail Inmate List is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and visiting schedule. You can find info about anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get the information fast if you enter their name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Spink County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Spink 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.

You will answer some questions, such as your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. 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 telephone in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take from 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get released. Also, how fast you get released will depend on whether you have a cash bond or if a judge has to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor charges, 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 date of your release, you should expect to get released that morning.

Spink County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s full name to the Spink County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be put in a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. All visitors has to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

The Spink County Jail visitation procedures change often, so you should call the jail at (605) 472-4595 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Spink County Jail you must first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Spink County Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 old and is not a family member of 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 magazines to an inmate at the Spink County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Spink 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 Spink 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 Spink 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 check the court records online 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 the officer in charge. Bear 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, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Spink County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that includes a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Spink County Jail inmates could change, so you should review the Spink County Jail site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Spink 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 Spink County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (605) 472-4595 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 Spink County Jail store. You can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from 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 buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Spink County Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are typically pricier than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden.

The Spink County Jail phone number is: (605) 472-4595

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 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 Spink County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 figuring out how to decrease 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where 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 or prison has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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