Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility

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The Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility is located at 1627 South Hargrave Street in Banning, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about anything you might want to know about the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Riverside County court records, and more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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10. How to Search Riverside County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info that you need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get information for anyone booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility is made up of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You have to answer some basic questions, such as what is your legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to use the phone so you can talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged takes between 30 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if the judge still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, you should plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility Visitation

The inmate have to list information about each visitor to the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility in advance of any visit. Your visitors will go in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at (951) 922-7300 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility you must first have your name on their visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must 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 of age 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility. 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the court records on the website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility jail inmates might change, so it would be best to double check the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility

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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (951) 922-7300 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These products 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

All phone calls from the Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about 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 there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone privileges could be reduced or forbidden completely.

The Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility phone number is: (951) 922-7300

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts 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 money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone call 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 Riverside County Jail – Smith Correctional Facility, click the link below.

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