La Plata County Jail

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The La Plata County Jail is located at 742 Turner Drive in Durango, CO and is a medium security county jail operated by the La Plata County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about anything related to the La Plata County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the La Plata County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer advice and information that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or tips that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

La Plata County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The La Plata County Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of people who are in jail, including status, and visiting hours. You can also find info about anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

La Plata County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the La Plata County Jail is made up of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a bunch of questions, like what is your legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day long. So, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will be released. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge still needs to determine how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

La Plata County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the La Plata County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be put into the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the jail at (970) 247-1161 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the La Plata County Jail you must first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at La Plata County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must 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, this 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 La Plata County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the La Plata 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 La Plata 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 La Plata 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the court records on the La Plata County jail website or you are able to 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. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the La Plata County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file containing a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access your court records online, or at the La Plata County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the La Plata County Jail might change, so you should double check the La Plata County Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at La Plata 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 La Plata County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (970) 247-1161 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 La Plata County Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that La Plata County Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls 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 bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, phone calls could be reduced or forbidden.

The La Plata County Jail phone number is: (970) 247-1161

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 La Plata 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to lower 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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