Darby Police Jail

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The Darby Police Jail is located at 101 East Tanner Avenue in Darby, MT and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Darby Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Darby Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Darby Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or tips that would help others is welcome.

Darby Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Darby Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find information on anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information quicker if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Darby Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Darby Police Jail takes you through these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to use the phone to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will be released. It also will depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to determine the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a discharge date, you should expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Darby Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Darby Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitors log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the official Darby Police Jail at 406-821-3753 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Darby Police Jail you have to be on their visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Darby Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Darby Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Darby 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 Darby 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 Darby 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Ravalli County court website or call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Darby Police Jail inmates change frequently, so you should double check the Darby Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Darby 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 Darby Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 406-821-3753 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 Darby Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need 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 inmates can purchase 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Darby Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: 406-821-3753

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Darby Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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. In some cases, 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 has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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