Tulare County Detention Operations

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The Tulare County Detention Operations is located at 2404 West Burrel Avenue in Visalia, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Tulare County Detention Operations, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Tulare County Detention Operations, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and tips you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that could help others would be appreciated.

Tulare County Detention Operations Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tulare County Detention Operations Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals currently in custody, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find info about anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their inmate information more quickly if you have their first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Tulare County Detention Operations Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Tulare County Detention Operations takes you through each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process may take between 15 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. Also, it will depend on if you have a bond amount or if a judge has to figure out the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, expect to get discharged that morning.

Tulare County Detention Operations Visitation

Inmates must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Tulare County Detention Operations before you can visit. Your visitors will be entered in a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Every visitor 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 not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Tulare County Detention Operations change often, so make sure that you call the jail at (559) 733-6220 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Tulare County Detention Operations you must first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be 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 without it.

No phones at Tulare County Detention Operations, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Tulare County Detention Operations. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tulare County Detention Operations 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 Tulare County Detention Operations. 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 Tulare County Detention Operations 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 are able to check the court records on the Tulare County court website or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, 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 procedure to send money to Tulare County Detention Operations inmates is likely to change, so we suggest that you visit the Tulare County Detention Operations site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tulare County Detention Operations

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 Tulare County Detention Operations uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (559) 733-6220 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 Tulare County Detention Operations store. You can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Tulare County Detention Operations are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden completely.

The Tulare County Detention Operations phone number is: (559) 733-6220

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all 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 Tulare County Detention Operations. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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