Toombs County Jail

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The Toombs County Jail is located at 357 NW Broad Street in Lyons, GA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Toombs County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about anything related to the Toombs County Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and advice that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Toombs County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Toombs County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find the same information about anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to get the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Toombs County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Toombs County Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some questions, like your full legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to use the phone so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get let go. It also depends on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if the judge still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Toombs County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Toombs County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will go in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. All visitors will be required to provide proof of identification. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so we suggest that you call the jail at (912) 526-6778 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Toombs County Jail you have to be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Toombs County Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 the 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 Toombs County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Toombs 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 Toombs 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 Toombs 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 access arrest warrants inquiry on the Toombs County jail website or call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear 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 have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Toombs County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and any documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at the Toombs County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to the Toombs County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Toombs County Jail jail inmates change frequently, so it would be best to check the Toombs County Jail website before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Toombs 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 Toombs County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (912) 526-6778 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 Toombs County Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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 Toombs County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are usually more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: (912) 526-6778

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all 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 Toombs 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 how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money 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 facility 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 Toombs County Jail, click the link below.

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