Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility

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The Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility is located at 1815 Cold Springs Road in Fort Worth, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to others will be much appreciated.

Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get info about anybody processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility includes each of the following steps:

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

You will have to answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a release date, plan to get discharged that morning.

Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into the visitors log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

The Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility visitation procedures change often, so call the official Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility at (817) 884-3116 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility you must first be on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility 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 Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility. 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 Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the website or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Tarrant County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a docket and all documents filed in the case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at the Tarrant County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal past. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to the Tarrant County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail are always changing, so you should check the Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility

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 Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (817) 884-3116 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 Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are much more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (817) 884-3116

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility. 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 state prisons and local jails finding out 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. 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 has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Tarrant County Jail – Cold Springs Facility, click the link below.

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