Rabun County Detention Center

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The Rabun County Detention Center is located at 175 Boen Creek Road in Tiger, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Rabun County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you info about everything related to the Rabun County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer advice and information that you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and also any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to others will be much appreciated.

Rabun County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Rabun County Detention Center Inmate List is a roster of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find information on anyone arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Rabun County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Rabun County Detention Center is made up of each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

You will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your full legal name, address, date of birth and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

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

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process may take between 10 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get released. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Rabun County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Rabun County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will go in the log as an approved visitor. All visitors must provide proof of identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Rabun County Detention Center frequently change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (706) 782-3612 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Rabun County Detention Center you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make 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.

No phones are allowed at Rabun County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of 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 Rabun County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Rabun 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 Rabun 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 Rabun 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants on the Rabun County court website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Rabun County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file containing a docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Rabun County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes, which can include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Rabun County Detention Center jail inmates change frequently, so you should visit the Rabun County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Rabun 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 Rabun County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (706) 782-3612 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 Rabun County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

All phone calls from the Rabun County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or totally denied.

The Rabun County Detention Center phone number is: (706) 782-3612

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls 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 Rabun County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not 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 or prison 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 Rabun County Detention Center, click the link below.

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