Hood County Jail

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The Hood County Jail is located at 400 Deputy Larry Miller Drive in Granbury, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Hood County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you info about everything you might want to know about the Hood County Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer advice and information that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, just ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to others is welcome.

Hood County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hood County Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes status, and schedule for visitation. You can get the same information about anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Hood County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Hood County Jail is made up of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some questions, such as what is your legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

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

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. Also, it depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the release date, plan to get discharged in the morning.

Hood County Jail Visitation

Inmates must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Hood County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be put in the log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Hood County Jail visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the official Hood County Jail at (817) 579-3333 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Hood County Jail you must first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Hood County Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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, 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 Hood County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hood 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 Hood 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 Hood 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 check the arrest warrants on the website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail 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 know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Hood County jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history 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, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail is likely to change, so we suggest that you review the Hood County Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hood 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 Hood County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (817) 579-3333 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 Hood County Jail store. You can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, 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 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

The only phone calls that Hood County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are generally pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: (817) 579-3333

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set 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 Hood County Jail. 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 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 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 won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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