Tift County Jail

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The Tift County Jail is located at 500 Morgan Drive in Tifton, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Tift County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about everything related to the Tift County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Tift County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Tift County court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Tift County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tift County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can get information about anybody arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their arrest information quicker if you enter their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Tift County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Tift County Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

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

They will let you make a phone call to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process can take anywhere between 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get let go. Also, it can depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a judge has to figure out the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Tift County Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Tift County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s information will be put in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor must provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Tift County Jail frequently change, so you should call the official Tift County Jail at (229) 388-6020 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Tift County Jail you must first be added to this person’s approved 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 phones are allowed at Tift County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Tift County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tift 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 Tift 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 Tift 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 arrest warrants on the Tift County jail website or 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 them. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Tift County jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in your case. You can access the court records on the website, or at the Tift County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to the Tift County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail is likely to change, so be sure to visit the Tift County Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tift 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 Tift County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (229) 388-6020 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 Tift County Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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 Tift County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot pricier than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but bear 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 phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (229) 388-6020

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Tift 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 state prisons and local jails learning 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 calling 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. There are some prisons or jails where 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 cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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