Lavaca County Jail

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The Lavaca County Jail is located at 38 FM 318 in Hallettsville, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lavaca County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Lavaca County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Lavaca County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give info you 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 please leave any feedback or comments that could help others would be much appreciated.

Lavaca County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lavaca County Jail Inmate Search is a list of individuals who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also get the same information about anyone processed or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information quicker if you enter their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Lavaca County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Lavaca County Jail is made up of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 10 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you can get released from jail. It also will depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge still needs to figure out how much your bail will be. 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 date of your release, plan to be released in the morning.

Lavaca County Jail Visitation

The inmate need to provide information about each visitor to the Lavaca County Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so we suggest that you call the jail at (361) 798-2420 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Lavaca County Jail you have to be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Lavaca County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. 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. Such visitation is not normally 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 under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Lavaca County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lavaca 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 Lavaca 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 Lavaca 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the website or call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear 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, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and all documents filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Lavaca County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you review the Lavaca County Jail website before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lavaca 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 Lavaca County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (361) 798-2420 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 Lavaca County Jail store. You can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. 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 products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Lavaca County Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much pricier than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or cut altogether.

The Lavaca County Jail phone number is: (361) 798-2420

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the 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 Lavaca County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 finding out how to decrease 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 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 won’t 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 phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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