Phil Campbell Police Jail

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The Phil Campbell Police Jail is located at 580 Railroad Street in Phil Campbell, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Phil Campbell Police Department.

This page tells you info about anything a person needs to know about the Phil Campbell Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Phil Campbell Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Franklin County court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information that you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Phil Campbell Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Phil Campbell Police Jail Inmate List is a roster of people currently in custody, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can also find the same information for anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their arrest information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Phil Campbell Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Phil Campbell Police Jail takes you through these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You have to answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get released. Also, how fast you get released can depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a release date, plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Phil Campbell Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide information about each visitor to the Phil Campbell Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the jail at 205-993-5313 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Phil Campbell Police Jail you have to be on their approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Phil Campbell Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Phil Campbell 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 Phil Campbell 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 Phil Campbell 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check court records on the Franklin County jail website or call the court. You have to have the person’s 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 Franklin County jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a court docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Franklin County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you check the Phil Campbell Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Phil Campbell 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 205-993-5313 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely.

The Phil Campbell Police Jail phone number is: 205-993-5313

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make are split 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 a lot of money on calling your inmate. In some cases, 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 cases like this, 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 Phil Campbell Police Jail, click the link below.

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