Clay County Jail

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The Clay County Jail is located at 268 South 2nd Avenue in Piggott, AR and is a medium security county jail operated by the Clay County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Clay County Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Clay County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Clay County Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can get information on anybody processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Clay County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Clay County Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, home address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. 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 phone call to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, 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 be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the magistrate must figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a release date, you should expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Clay County Jail Visitation

Inmates have to provide each visitor’s name to the Clay County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies can change, so call the official Clay County Jail at (870) 598-2270 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Clay County Jail you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Clay County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Clay County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Clay County 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 Clay County 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 Clay County 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, you can access arrest warrants on the Clay County court website or call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. 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 know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Clay County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is 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 case file that includes a court docket and all documents filed in your court case. You can 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 maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Clay County Jail jail inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Clay County Jail website before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Clay County 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 Clay County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (870) 598-2270 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 Clay County Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

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

The only phone calls that Clay County Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are usually more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (870) 598-2270

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Clay County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we will not 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 has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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