Jennings Police Jail

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The Jennings Police Jail is located at 110 North Broadway in Jennings, LA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Jennings Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about everything related to the Jennings Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Jennings Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Jennings Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Jennings Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information on anyone processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Jennings Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Jennings Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

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

First you will have to answer some simple questions, like your full name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, you should expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Jennings Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give each visitor’s full name to the Jennings Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at 337-821-5513 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Jennings Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Be 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.

No phones are allowed at Jennings Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Jennings Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Jennings 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 Jennings 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 Jennings 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 for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Jefferson Davis Parish court website or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Jefferson Davis Parish jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket and any documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Jefferson Davis Parish Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from other states. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail might change, so you should check the Jennings Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Jennings 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 Jennings Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 337-821-5513 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 Jennings Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Jennings Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 337-821-5513

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from 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 Jennings Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 finding out how to lower 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 calling 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 circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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