Banner Elk Police Jail

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The Banner Elk Police Jail is located at 583 Main Street East in Banner Elk, NC and is a medium security police department jail operated by the City Of Banner Elk Police Department.

This guide tells you info about everything related to the Banner Elk Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Banner Elk Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and also any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Banner Elk Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Banner Elk Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find info about anyone arrested and booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Banner Elk Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Banner Elk Police Jail is made up of these steps:

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

First, you will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, home address, birthdate and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere between 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the judge must figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to get released that morning.

Banner Elk Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give information about each visitor to the Banner Elk Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Banner Elk Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so you should call the facility at 828-898-4300 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Banner Elk Police Jail you have to have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Banner Elk Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a 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 Banner Elk Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Banner Elk Police 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 Banner Elk Police 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 Banner Elk Police 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Avery County court website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person 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 the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Avery County jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file containing a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the Avery County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail might change, so be sure to visit the Banner Elk Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Banner Elk Police 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 Banner Elk Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 828-898-4300 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 Banner Elk Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want 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 the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Banner Elk Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are typically pricier 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 inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls may be limited or forbidden completely.

The Banner Elk Police Jail phone number is: 828-898-4300

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all phone calls that inmates make 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 Banner Elk Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower 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 money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Banner Elk Police Jail, click the link below.

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