Craighead County Detention

---

The Craighead County Detention is located at 901 Willett Road in Jonesboro, AR and is a medium security county jail operated by the Craighead County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Craighead County Detention, like how to locate an inmate at the Craighead County Detention, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

Top 10 Searches for Craighead County Detention

1. Craighead County Detention Information
2. Craighead County Detention Inmate Search
3. Craighead County Inmate Search in Jonesboro, AR
4. What Are the Visitation Rules for Craighead County Detention
5. What Are the Visitation Hours for Craighead County Detention
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Craighead County Detention
7. Craighead County Detention Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Craighead County Detention
10. How to Search Craighead County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and tips that you’ll need to make the process less stressfull. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others is welcome.

Craighead County Detention Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Craighead County Detention Inmate List is a roster of individuals currently in custody, including current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find the same information for anybody processed or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can get their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Craighead County Detention Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Craighead County Detention is made up of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first step is that you must answer a number of questions, like your full legal name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a telephone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate must decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, plan to be released in the morning.

Craighead County Detention Visitation

The inmate have to list each visitor’s name to the Craighead County Detention in advance of the visit. This information will go into the log as an approved visitor. Each visitor must provide proof of identification. Visitors showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the jail at (870) 933-4526 before you go to visitation.

---

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Craighead County Detention you must first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No mobile phones at Craighead County Detention, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on 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 a 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 the 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 Craighead County Detention. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Craighead County Detention 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 Craighead County Detention. 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 Craighead County Detention 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 might have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Craighead County court website or you can call the court directly. 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 be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, 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 Craighead County jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file containing a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in the case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Craighead County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Craighead County Detention jail inmates can change at any time, so be sure to check the Craighead County Detention site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Craighead County Detention

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 Craighead County Detention uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (870) 933-4526 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 Craighead County Detention store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products 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 Craighead County Detention are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or cut altogether.

The Craighead County Detention phone number is: (870) 933-4526

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts 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 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 Craighead County Detention. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

2409