Mineral Wells Police Jail

---

The Mineral Wells Police Jail is located at 212 South Oak Avenue in Mineral Wells, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mineral Wells Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Mineral Wells Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Mineral Wells Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

Top 10 Searches for Mineral Wells Police Jail

1. Mineral Wells Police Jail Information
2. Mineral Wells Police Jail Inmate Search
3. Palo Pinto County Inmate Search in Mineral Wells, TX
4. What Are the Visitation Rules for Mineral Wells Police Jail
5. Mineral Wells Police Jail Visitation Hours
6. Discount Mineral Wells Police Jail Inmate Calls
7. How to Send Inmate Care Packages to Mineral Wells Police Jail
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Mineral Wells Police Jail
10. How to Search Palo Pinto County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to offer info that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a question, just ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Mineral Wells Police Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Mineral Wells Police Jail Inmate Search has information about people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to find the same information on anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their arrest information more quickly if you enter the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Mineral Wells Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Mineral Wells Police Jail includes these steps:

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

The first step is that you must answer some basic questions, such as your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the phone to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you wear your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged takes between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate has to decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a release date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Mineral Wells Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Mineral Wells Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be put into a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. All visitors has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Mineral Wells Police Jail at 940-328-7770 before you go.

---

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Mineral Wells Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Mineral Wells Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 younger than 18 years old 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 Mineral Wells Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mineral Wells 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Mineral Wells 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 Mineral Wells 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 find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry online or call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access your court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail might change, so you should visit the Mineral Wells Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mineral Wells 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 Mineral Wells Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 940-328-7770 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 Mineral Wells Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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

All phone calls from the Mineral Wells Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive 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 that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or totally denied.

The Mineral Wells Police Jail phone number is: 940-328-7770

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all of the 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 Mineral Wells 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 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 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 therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

13681