Saline County Detention Center

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The Saline County Detention Center is located at 735 South Neeley Street in Benton, AR and is a medium security county jail operated by the Saline County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Saline County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, 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 goal of this guide is to give you information and tips you need to make the process easier. If you have a question, just ask it, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Saline County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Saline County Detention Center Inmate List has information about individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information on anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to locate the information faster if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Saline County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Saline County Detention Center is made up of each of the following steps:

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

The first step is that you have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the phone so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged. It also will depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate has to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Saline County Detention Center Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide information about each visitor to the Saline County Detention Center in advance of the visit. This information will be entered into the log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so call the official Saline County Detention Center at (501) 303-5642 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Saline County Detention Center you have to have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Saline County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Saline County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Saline County 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 Saline County 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 Saline County 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Saline County court website or call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Saline County Detention Center inmates are always changing, so you should visit the Saline County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Saline County 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 Saline County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (501) 303-5642 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 Saline County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Saline County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. 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 should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

The Saline County Detention Center phone number is: (501) 303-5642

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all 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 Saline County Detention Center. The prices 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 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. 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 has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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