Perkins County Jail

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The Perkins County Jail is located at 200 Lincoln Avenue in Grant, NE and is a medium security county jail operated by the Perkins County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Perkins County Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Perkins County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Perkins County court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Perkins County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Perkins County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can also get information about anyone who has been arrested or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information quicker if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Perkins County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Perkins County Jail includes each of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a bunch of questions, like your full legal name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you 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 be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the telephone to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond or if a judge needs to decide on the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Perkins County Jail Visitation

The inmate need to provide information about each visitor to the Perkins County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in the visitation log for the inmate. Every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Perkins County Jail at (308) 352-4564 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

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

Make 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 Perkins County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. 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. Such visitation is not 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Perkins County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Perkins 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 Perkins 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 Perkins 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 for your arrest, you can check the court records on the Perkins County court website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records online, or at the Perkins County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail at the Perkins County Jail change frequently, so be sure to review the Perkins County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Perkins 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 Perkins County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (308) 352-4564 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 Perkins County Jail store. You can buy several 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 daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Perkins County Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or cut altogether.

The Perkins County Jail phone number is: (308) 352-4564

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 these phone service providers make 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 Perkins County Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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