Randolph County Jail

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The Randolph County Jail is located at 200 West Buena Vista in Chester, IL and is a medium security county jail operated by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about anything related to the Randolph County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Randolph County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to others is welcome.

Randolph County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Randolph County Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, including status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find the same information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their inmate information fast if you enter their full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Randolph County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Randolph County Jail includes each of the following steps:

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

First, you will answer a number of questions, such as your full legal name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to use the phone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, if not you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process takes from 10 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be released. How quickly you get discharged might depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if the magistrate still needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Randolph County Jail Visitation

The inmate must give information about each visitor to the Randolph County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will go in a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor must provide identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the official Randolph County Jail at (618) 826-5484 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Randolph County Jail you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Randolph County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Randolph County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Randolph County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file containing a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from other states. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Randolph County Jail jail inmates is likely to change, so double check the Randolph County Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Randolph 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 Randolph County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (618) 826-5484 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 Randolph County Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products like 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 Randolph County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. 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 bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: (618) 826-5484

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls are shared 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 Randolph 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 learning how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call 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 Randolph County Jail, click the link below.

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