Breaux Bridge Police Jail

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The Breaux Bridge Police Jail is located at 101 Berard Street in Breaux Bridge, LA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Breaux Bridge Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Breaux Bridge Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you info that you need to make going to jail easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and also any tips or comments that would help other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Breaux Bridge Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Breaux Bridge Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get information about anyone processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Breaux Bridge Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Breaux Bridge Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer some simple questions, like what is your legal name, street address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

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

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

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it will depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Breaux Bridge Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Breaux Bridge Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitors log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors must provide proof of identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Breaux Bridge Police Jail change often, so you should call the official Breaux Bridge Police Jail at 337-332-2186 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Breaux Bridge Police Jail you have to first be on their approved visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Breaux Bridge Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Breaux Bridge Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Breaux Bridge 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 Breaux Bridge 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 Breaux Bridge 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 arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file containing a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These state databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Breaux Bridge Police Jail inmates are always changing, so check the Breaux Bridge Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Breaux Bridge 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 Breaux Bridge Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 337-332-2186 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 Breaux Bridge Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Breaux Bridge Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are much pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, 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 jail rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 337-332-2186

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 Breaux Bridge Police Jail. 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 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 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 won’t 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 facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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