Wood County Corrections

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The Wood County Corrections is located at 402 South Andrew Stephens Street in Quitman, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wood County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might want to know about the Wood County Corrections, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Wood County Corrections, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and more.

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4. Wood County Corrections Visitation Rules
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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Wood County Corrections
7. How to Send Inmate Care Packages to Wood County Corrections
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Wood County Corrections
10. How to Search Wood County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Wood County Corrections Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Wood County Corrections Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find info about anybody processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Wood County Corrections Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Wood County Corrections takes you through each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you must answer some questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will be allowed to use the phone to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged takes anywhere between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster bail is posted, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it might depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if a judge still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the discharge date, plan to be released between 9am and noon.

Wood County Corrections Visitation

The inmate must list each visitor’s full name to the Wood County Corrections in advance. Your visitors will be entered in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

The Wood County Corrections visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at (903) 763-2201 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Wood County Corrections you have to first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones at Wood County Corrections, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 under the age of 18 and is not a family member of 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 Wood County Corrections. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Wood County Corrections 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 Wood County Corrections. 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 Wood County Corrections 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Wood County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Wood County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to 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 might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail can change at any time, so it would be best to check the Wood County Corrections site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Wood County Corrections

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 Wood County Corrections uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (903) 763-2201 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 Wood County Corrections store. An inmate can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

All phone calls from the Wood County Corrections are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are usually pricier than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, phone calls might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Wood County Corrections phone number is: (903) 763-2201

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the 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 Wood County Corrections. 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 calling your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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