Randolph County Jail

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The Randolph County Jail is located at 1510 Pace Road in Pocahontas, AR and is a medium security county jail operated by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Randolph County Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Randolph County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info that you’ll need to make the process a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Randolph County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Randolph County Jail Inmate Search has information about individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find info for anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can get the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Randolph County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Randolph County Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You must answer some questions, like your full legal name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to make a phone call to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take between 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Randolph County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s name to the Randolph County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be put into the visitors log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor has to provide identification. Any visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the jail at (870) 892-8888 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Randolph County Jail you must be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Randolph County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Randolph County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Randolph County jail website or call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Randolph County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a court docket and any of the documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from another state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail change frequently, so you should review the Randolph County Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Randolph 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 Randolph County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (870) 892-8888 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 Randolph County Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely 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 an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Randolph County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Randolph County Jail phone number is: (870) 892-8888

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Randolph County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 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 circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail 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 Randolph County Jail, click the link below.

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