Wise County Jail

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The Wise County Jail is located at 72 South in Coeburn, VA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wise County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Wise County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Wise County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer advice and information that you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a specific question, just ask them, and any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Wise County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Wise County Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find information about anybody processed or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate their arrest information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Wise County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Wise County Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you must answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get released. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the release date, you should plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Wise County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide information about each visitor to the Wise County Jail in advance of any visit. This information will go in the log as an approved visitor. All visitors must provide proof of identification. Visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Wise County Jail are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at (276) 679-9204 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Wise County Jail you must first have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Wise County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not 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 under the age of 18 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Wise County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Wise 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 Wise 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 Wise 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Wise County jail website or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Wise County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a docket and all of the documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records online, or at the Wise County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates are always changing, so be sure to double check the Wise County Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Wise 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 Wise County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (276) 679-9204 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 Wise County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely 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 products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Wise County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden.

The Wise County Jail phone number is: (276) 679-9204

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from 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 Wise 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 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, 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 jail or prison 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 Wise County Jail, click the link below.

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