Lee County Jail

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The Lee County Jail is located at 190 West Main Street in Beattyville, KY and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lee County Sheriff’s Department.

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

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and also any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Lee County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lee County Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. You can also find information about anyone booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Lee County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Lee County Jail includes the following steps:

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

First, you will have to answer some simple questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the phone in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the judge still needs to figure out the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a discharge date, plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Lee County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to give each visitor’s full name to the Lee County Jail in advance. Your visitors will be put in a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide identification. Anyone arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the jail at (606) 464-4145 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Lee County Jail you have to be added to their approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No mobile phones are allowed at Lee County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Lee County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lee 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 Lee 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 Lee 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants on the Lee County court website or you can call the court directly. This requires a 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 an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file containing a docket sheet and all documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates change frequently, so we suggest that you visit the Lee County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lee 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 Lee County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (606) 464-4145 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 Lee County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Lee County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are generally pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to 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 you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden completely.

The Lee County Jail phone number is: (606) 464-4145

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Lee County Jail. The rates 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 can be 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. There are some prisons or jails where 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 has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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