Stephens County Jail

---

The Stephens County Jail is located at 200 West Clark Street in Breckenridge, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Stephens County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Stephens County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Stephens County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and lots more.

Top 10 Searches for Stephens County Jail

1. Stephens County Jail Information
2. Stephens County Jail Inmate Search
3. Stephens County Inmate Search in Breckenridge, TX
4. Stephens County Jail Visitation Rules
5. Stephens County Jail Visitation Hours
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Stephens County Jail
7. How to Send Inmate Care Packages to Stephens County Jail
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Stephens County Jail
10. How to Search Stephens County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make getting locked up easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Stephens County Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Stephens County Jail Inmate Roster has information about individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get the same information on anyone booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Stephens County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Stephens County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you must answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will get to use the phone to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to get released that morning.

Stephens County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Stephens County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will go into the visitors log as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the facility at (254) 559-6474 before you go to the jail to visit.

---

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Stephens County Jail you have to be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Stephens County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 old 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 Stephens County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Stephens 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Stephens 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 Stephens 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 Stephens County court website or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. 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 the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Stephens County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a court docket and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Stephens County Jail change frequently, so visit the Stephens County Jail website when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Stephens 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 Stephens County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (254) 559-6474 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 Stephens County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably need 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 items that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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 Stephens County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 inmates should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or totally denied.

The Stephens County Jail phone number is: (254) 559-6474

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the phone calls that inmates make are split 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 Stephens County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 learning 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 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 therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

2150