Galena Park Police Jail

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The Galena Park Police Jail is located at 2207 Clinton Drive in Galena Park, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Galena Park Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything related to the Galena Park Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Galena Park Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the information and tips you need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that might be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Galena Park Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Galena Park Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can get information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get the information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Galena Park Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Galena Park Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to make a telephone call in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a judge needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the discharge date, you should plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Galena Park Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must list each visitor’s full name to the Galena Park Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a Visiting log for the inmate. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Galena Park Police Jail are always changing, so you should call the jail at 713-675-3471 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Galena Park Police Jail you must have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Galena Park Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 of age 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 Galena Park Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Galena Park 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 Galena Park 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 Galena Park 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 access arrest warrants online or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Harris County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that contains a court docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Harris County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to the Harris County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you visit the Galena Park Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Galena Park 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 Galena Park Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 713-675-3471 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 Galena Park Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, 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 items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Galena Park Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, phone calls could be reduced or forbidden.

The Galena Park Police Jail phone number is: 713-675-3471

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Galena Park Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails 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 facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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