Terrell Hills Police Jail

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The Terrell Hills Police Jail is located at 5100 North New Braunfels Avenue in Terrell Hills, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Terrell Hills Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Terrell Hills Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Terrell Hills Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and advice you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might help others will be welcome.

Terrell Hills Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Terrell Hills Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people currently in custody, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to get info for anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find their inmate information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Terrell Hills Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Terrell Hills Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you must answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, your address, birth date and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. It also might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if the judge must decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Terrell Hills Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Terrell Hills Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide proof of identification. Visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the facility at 210-824-7401 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Terrell Hills Police Jail you have to be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Make 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 without it.

No phones are allowed at Terrell Hills Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of 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 magazines to an inmate at the Terrell Hills Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Terrell Hills 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 Terrell Hills 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 Terrell Hills 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 check court records on the website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Bexar County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates at the Terrell Hills Police Jail are always changing, so it would be best to visit the Terrell Hills Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Terrell Hills 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 Terrell Hills Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 210-824-7401 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 Terrell Hills Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need 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 inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Terrell Hills Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 210-824-7401

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Terrell Hills Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 finding 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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