Glades County Detention Center

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The Glades County Detention Center is located at 1297 East State Road 78 in Moore Haven, FL and is a medium security county jail operated by the Glades County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything related to the Glades County Detention Center, like how to find an inmate at the Glades County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Glades County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Glades County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Glades County Detention Center Inmate Roster is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get info for anyone arrested and booked or released within the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information fast if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Glades County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Glades County Detention Center includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer a number of questions, such as your full legal name, your address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone so you can call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise 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 may take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. It also can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a discharge date, expect to be released that morning.

Glades County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Glades County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. This information will be entered in the log as an authorized visitor. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (863) 946-1600 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Glades County Detention Center you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Glades County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If the 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Glades County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Glades County Detention Center 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 Glades County Detention Center. 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 Glades County Detention Center 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 court records on the Glades County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. 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 a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Glades County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Glades County Detention Center is likely to change, so you should review the Glades County Detention Center site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Glades County Detention Center

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 Glades County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (863) 946-1600 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 Glades County Detention Center store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use 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 enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Glades County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (863) 946-1600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Glades County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 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 calling 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 circumstances 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 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 Glades County Detention Center, click the link below.

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