Owingsville Police Jail

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The Owingsville Police Jail is located at 19 Goodpaster Avenue in Owingsville, KY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Owingsville Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Owingsville Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Owingsville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to others is appreciated.

Owingsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Owingsville Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find info on anyone arrested and booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information quicker if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Owingsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Owingsville Police Jail takes you through these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you must answer some questions, such as what is your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the phone to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. It also might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Owingsville Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Owingsville Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered into the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide identification. Anyone arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Owingsville Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the facility at 606-674-2341 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Owingsville 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 because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Owingsville Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually 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 the 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Owingsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Owingsville 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 Owingsville 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 Owingsville 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 arrest warrants on the Bath County jail website or call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you 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, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a case file that contains a court docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at the Bath County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to the Bath County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail at the Owingsville Police Jail can change at any time, so you should visit the Owingsville Police Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Owingsville 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 Owingsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 606-674-2341 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 Owingsville Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Owingsville Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Owingsville Police Jail phone number is: 606-674-2341

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each 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 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 Owingsville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning 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. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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