Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility

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The Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility is located at 2500 Urban Drive in Fort Worth, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find Tarrant County court records, and everything else.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information and tips you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility Inmate Roster is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find info on anybody booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information faster if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility includes each of these steps:

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

You will answer some questions, like what is your full name, your address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you make a phone call in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will be released. Also, it will depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, expect to get discharged that morning.

Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s name to the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility in advance of the visit. Your visitors will go into a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so you should call the jail at (817) 884-3116 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility you have to first be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility 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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility. 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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the court records on the Tarrant County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, 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 jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to the Tarrant County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are 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 crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to double check the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility

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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (817) 884-3116 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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, 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 sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (817) 884-3116

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money 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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility 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 Tarrant County Jail – Green Bay Facility, click the link below.

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