Southside Police Jail

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The Southside Police Jail is located at 2255 State Highway 77 in Southside, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Southside Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Southside Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Southside Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information 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 also any feedback or comments that would help others would be appreciated.

Southside Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Southside Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about people who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get information on anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find the information quicker if you’ve got their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Southside Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Southside Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a number of questions, like your full name, your address, birth date and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

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

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and have a discharge date, plan to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Southside Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must list each visitor’s full name to the Southside Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into the visitors log as an Authorized visit. All visitors must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will be turned away.

The Southside Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the official Southside Police Jail at 256-442-2255 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Southside Police Jail you must be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Southside Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Southside Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Southside 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 Southside 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 Southside 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 access arrest warrants inquiry on the Etowah County court website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Etowah County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and any documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to the Etowah County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail change frequently, so review the Southside Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Southside 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 Southside Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 256-442-2255 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 Southside Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products including 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 Southside Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive 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 lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 256-442-2255

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Southside 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 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 inmate phone calls. 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 calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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