Effingham County Jail

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The Effingham County Jail is located at 130 First Street Extention in Springfield, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Effingham County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Effingham County Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Effingham County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you info that you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, just ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to others will be much appreciated.

Effingham County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Effingham County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get information for anyone booked or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Effingham County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Effingham County Jail takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you will have to answer some basic questions, such as your full legal name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call in order to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, if not you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes anywhere from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if a judge still needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, plan to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Effingham County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Effingham County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be entered in the visitors log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Effingham County Jail change often, so make sure that you call the facility at (912) 754-3449 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Effingham County Jail you have to first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No phones at Effingham County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Effingham County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Effingham 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 Effingham 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 Effingham 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 for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Effingham County jail website or you can call the court. You have to have their 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 have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Effingham County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and all filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on the website, or at the Effingham County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Effingham County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail can change at any time, so be sure to double check the Effingham County Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Effingham 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 Effingham County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (912) 754-3449 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 Effingham County Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

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

All phone calls from the Effingham County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are usually pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (912) 754-3449

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from 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 Effingham County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where 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 these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate 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 Effingham County Jail, click the link below.

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