Centre County Prison

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The Centre County Prison is located at 700 Rishel Hill Road in Bellefonte, PA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Centre County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you info about anything you might need to know about the Centre County Prison, such as how to find an inmate at the Centre County Prison, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info you need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or tips that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Centre County Prison Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Centre County Prison Inmate Search has information about people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information about anyone processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Centre County Prison Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Centre County Prison takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will answer some questions, such as what is 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 issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call so you can contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate has to determine how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Centre County Prison Visitation

The inmate must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Centre County Prison in advance. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitors log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so call the official Centre County Prison at (814) 355-6794 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Centre County Prison you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Centre County Prison, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 magazines to an inmate at the Centre County Prison. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Centre County Prison 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 Centre County Prison. 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 Centre County Prison 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 can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Centre County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Keep in mind 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 name, and their arrest date, contact the Centre County jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file that contains a court docket and any documents and filings filed in your case. You can access your court records online, or at the Centre County 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 history. These databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates are always changing, so it would be best to review the Centre County Prison site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Centre County Prison

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 Centre County Prison uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (814) 355-6794 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 Centre County Prison store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Centre County Prison are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (814) 355-6794

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the 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 Centre County Prison. 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 lower your inmates phone charges is 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. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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