Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ

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The Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ is located at 400 Abbey Road in Belington, WV and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wetzel County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything you might need to know about the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and tips that you’ll need to make going to jail easier. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get info about anyone booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get the information more quickly if you enter their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ is made up of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you make a telephone call so you can call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

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

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take from 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get let go. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if a magistrate needs 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. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the discharge date, plan to be released in the morning.

Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ Visitation

The inmate have to provide information about each visitor to the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will go into a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor must provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so it would be wise to call the official Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ at (304) 637-0382 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the 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 a 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ. 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ 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, you can check the court records online or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Wetzel County jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records online, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail are always changing, so it would be best to check the Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ

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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (304) 637-0382 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want 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 purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products including 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (304) 637-0382

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all 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 Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 learning how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where 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 jail or prison has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Tygart Valley Regional Jail TVRJ, click the link below.

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