Washington County Jail

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The Washington County Jail is located at 215 SW Adams Avenue in Hillsboro, OR and is a medium security county jail operated by the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Washington County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Washington County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might help others is appreciated.

Washington County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Washington County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get information for anybody booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate their arrest information fast if you enter their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Washington County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Washington County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you 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 answer a number of questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you make a phone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 15 minutes to all day. So, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will be freed. Also, it will depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate has to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Washington County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Washington County Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be entered in a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Washington County Jail visitation procedures can change, so you should call the official Washington County Jail at (503) 846-6896 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No phones are allowed at Washington County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Washington County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access court records on the Washington County jail website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a 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 jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You can access court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Washington County Jail might change, so we suggest that you review the Washington County Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Washington 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 Washington County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (503) 846-6896 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 Washington County Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Washington County Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Washington County Jail phone number is: (503) 846-6896

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every 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 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 Washington County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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