Libby Police Jail

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The Libby Police Jail is located at 605 Mineral Avenue in Libby, MT and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Libby Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Libby Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Libby Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or tips that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Libby Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Libby Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people currently in custody, including status, and visiting schedule. You can also find information about anybody booked or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Libby Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Libby Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the phone in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

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

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process will take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it depends on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine the bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Libby Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to list information about each visitor to the Libby Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be entered into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor is required to provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the official Libby Police Jail at 406-293-3343 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No phones are allowed at Libby Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 Libby Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Libby 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 Libby 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 Libby 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you are able to check the court records online or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Libby Police Jail inmates are always changing, so you should check the Libby Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Libby 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 Libby Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 406-293-3343 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 Libby Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind 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 items that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products such as 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 Libby Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are usually more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone calls might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Libby Police Jail phone number is: 406-293-3343

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all 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 Libby Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 learning 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 a lot of money on calling 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 cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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