Wichita County Jail

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The Wichita County Jail is located at 900 7th Street in Wichita Falls, TX and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wichita County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Wichita County Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that might be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Wichita County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Wichita County Jail Inmate Search has information about people currently in custody, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can also get the same information about anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information quicker if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Wichita County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Wichita County Jail includes these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

You will answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your mental 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 away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

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

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process will take anywhere between 15 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the faster you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if a judge must figure out the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Wichita County Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Wichita County Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into the visitation log as an approved visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

The Wichita County Jail visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Wichita County Jail at (940) 766-8155 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Wichita County Jail you must have your name on their 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 Wichita County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 Wichita County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Wichita 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 Wichita 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 Wichita 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check court records on the Wichita County jail website or you are able to call the court. You have to have the person’s 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 a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get 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 Wichita County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records online, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Wichita County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail could change, so be sure to check the Wichita County Jail website when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Wichita 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 Wichita County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (940) 766-8155 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 Wichita County Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably 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 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 Wichita County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (940) 766-8155

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every 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 off of all of the inmate phone calls are split 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 Wichita County Jail. 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 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 figuring out how to decrease 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 jail or prison 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 Wichita County Jail, click the link below.

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