Clay Police Jail

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The Clay Police Jail is located at 22B West Railroad Street in Clay, KY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the City Of Clay Police Department.

This page will tell you info about everything one might want to know about the Clay Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info that you’ll need to make the process a lot easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Clay Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Clay Police Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find information for anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information faster if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Clay Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Clay Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you must answer some basic questions, such as your full name, address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate has to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a date of your release, you should plan to be discharged in the morning.

Clay Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Clay Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 270-664-2254 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Clay Police Jail you must have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Clay Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Usually is not normally 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 magazines to an inmate at the Clay Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Clay 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 Clay 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 Clay 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry online or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Webster County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates change frequently, so it would be best to visit the Clay Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Clay 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 Clay Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 270-664-2254 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 Clay Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Clay Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are a lot pricier than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules, phone privileges may be limited or totally denied.

Phone Number: 270-664-2254

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all inmate phone calls 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 Clay Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 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 has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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