Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center

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The Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center is located at 30755-B Auld Road in Murrieta, CA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center, such as how to find an inmate at the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Riverside County court records, and everything else.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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10. How to Search Riverside County Arrest Records

Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center Inmate Roster has information about people who have been arrested, which includes current status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get information on anyone arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you must answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to use the telephone to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process takes anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s full name to the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

The Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the jail at (951) 696-3050 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center you have to first be on their visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Riverside County Jail – Southwest 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 Riverside County Jail – Southwest 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 Riverside County Jail – Southwest 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should know 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, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Riverside County jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any documents and filings filed in your case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Riverside County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to the Riverside County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to people in jail could change, so be sure to check the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Riverside County Jail – Southwest 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 Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (951) 696-3050 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 – Southwest Detention Center store. You can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy 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

All phone calls from the Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are much more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: (951) 696-3050

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly 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 money these phone service providers make off of 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 – Southwest Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 finding out how to decrease 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Riverside County Jail – Southwest Detention Center, click the link below.

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