West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center

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The West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center is located at 850 8th Street in Port Allen, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything you might want to know about the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that might be a benefit to others will be appreciated.

West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center Inmate Roster is a roster of people currently in custody, including status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get information for anybody booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their inmate information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center includes each of the following steps:

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

The first step is that you have to answer some basic questions, such as your full legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail can take between 30 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get let go. It also depends on whether you have a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center Visitation

The inmate must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center before you can visit. This information will be put in the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor is required to provide identification. Anyone showing up late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center can change, so you should call the jail at (225) 346-6400 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center you must first be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the West Baton Rouge Parish 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 West Baton Rouge Parish 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 West Baton Rouge Parish 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can check court records online or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear 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 the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that includes a docket sheet and all documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, 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 report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail might change, so you should visit the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at West Baton Rouge Parish 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 West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (225) 346-6400 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 West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, 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 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 West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much pricier than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center phone number is: (225) 346-6400

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 West Baton Rouge Parish 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 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s 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 cases like this, 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 West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center, click the link below.

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