Hallettsville Police Jail

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The Hallettsville Police Jail is located at 104 East 4Th Street in Hallettsville, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Hallettsville Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Hallettsville Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Hallettsville Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the advice and information that you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Hallettsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hallettsville Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of individuals currently in custody, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get information about anybody processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get the information faster if you enter their first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Hallettsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Hallettsville Police Jail includes each of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a number of questions, such as your full legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the phone to call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take from 10 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge has to figure out the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a discharge date, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Hallettsville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list information about each visitor to the Hallettsville Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will be entered in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Every visitor must provide identification. Visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Hallettsville Police Jail at 361-798-3683 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Hallettsville Police 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 visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Hallettsville Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Hallettsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hallettsville 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 Hallettsville 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 Hallettsville 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants on the website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access the court records on the website, or at the Lavaca County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail might change, so we suggest that you visit the Hallettsville Police Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hallettsville 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 Hallettsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 361-798-3683 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 Hallettsville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably 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 buy if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Hallettsville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated altogether.

The Hallettsville Police Jail phone number is: 361-798-3683

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each 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 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 Hallettsville Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to decrease 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 calling 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 money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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