Lafayette City Police Jail

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The Lafayette City Police Jail is located at 900 East University Avenue in Lafayette City, LA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Lafayette City Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Lafayette City Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, 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 advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that would help others is appreciated.

Lafayette City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lafayette City Police Jail Inmate Search has information about individuals who have been arrested, including status, and visiting schedule. You can get info about anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information quicker if you’ve got their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Lafayette City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lafayette City Police Jail includes these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer a number of questions, such as your legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to make a phone call to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Lafayette City Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Lafayette City Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be put in a log of visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Lafayette City Police Jail at 337-291-8600 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Lafayette City Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Lafayette City Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons 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 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 under the age of 18 and is not a family member of 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 magazines to an inmate at the Lafayette City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lafayette City 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 Lafayette City 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 Lafayette City 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the court records on the Lafayette Parish court website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access your court records online, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Lafayette City Police Jail inmates change frequently, so you should double check the Lafayette City Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lafayette City 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 Lafayette City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 337-291-8600 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 Lafayette City Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want 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 buy if they have sufficient funds 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

All phone calls from the Lafayette City Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when and 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 ability to use the phone might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Lafayette City Police Jail phone number is: 337-291-8600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Lafayette City Police Jail. The rates 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 learning 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call 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 these cases, the jail or prison 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 Lafayette City Police Jail, click the link below.

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