Nicholasville Police Jail

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The Nicholasville Police Jail is located at 510 North Main Street in Nicholasville, KY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Nicholasville Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Nicholasville Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation is welcome.

Nicholasville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Nicholasville Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find the same information about anybody processed or released within the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their inmate information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Nicholasville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Nicholasville Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

You must answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date 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 property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, 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 will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged may take from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will be released. Also, it will depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a discharge date, you should expect to get released that morning.

Nicholasville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name to the Nicholasville Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Nicholasville Police Jail change often, so call the official Nicholasville Police Jail at 859-885-9468 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Nicholasville Police Jail you have to first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Nicholasville Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually 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 related to the inmate, this 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 Nicholasville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Nicholasville 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 Nicholasville 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 Nicholasville 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Jessamine County court website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and any documents filed in the case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates could change, so you should double check the Nicholasville Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Nicholasville 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 Nicholasville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 859-885-9468 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 Nicholasville Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Nicholasville Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, 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, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or cut altogether.

The Nicholasville Police Jail phone number is: 859-885-9468

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, 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 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 Nicholasville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to lower your inmates phone charges is 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 calling your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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