Plain City Police Jail

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The Plain City Police Jail is located at 231 Friend Street in Plain City, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Plain City Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Plain City Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer advice and information that you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to others is much appreciated.

Plain City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Plain City Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes status, and visiting hours. You can also find info about anybody processed or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Plain City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Plain City Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you have to answer some simple questions, such as what is your full name, address, birth date and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the phone so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be freed. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge still needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the release date, you should expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Plain City Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to list each visitor’s full name to the Plain City Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 614-873-2921 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Plain City Police Jail you have to be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Plain City Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Plain City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Plain City 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 Plain City 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 Plain City 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Madison County jail website or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at the Madison County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail at the Plain City Police Jail change frequently, so be sure to double check the Plain City Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Plain City 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 Plain City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 614-873-2921 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 Plain City Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

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

The only phone calls that Plain City Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly 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 should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Plain City Police Jail phone number is: 614-873-2921

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider 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 Plain City Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 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 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 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 cases like this, the facility 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 Plain City Police Jail, click the link below.

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