Double Springs Police Jail

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The Double Springs Police Jail is located at 21 Main Street in Double Springs, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Double Springs Police Department.

This site tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Double Springs Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Double Springs Police Jail
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer advice and information you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or tips that might help other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Double Springs Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Double Springs Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who are in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find information on anyone booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to get the information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Double Springs Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Double Springs Police Jail includes the following steps:

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

First, you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the telephone in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you post bail, the sooner you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the judge has to figure out your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to be released between 9am and noon.

Double Springs Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Double Springs Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Double Springs Police Jail are always changing, so call the official Double Springs Police Jail at 205-489-5447 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Double Springs Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Double Springs Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 Double Springs Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Double Springs Police 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 Double Springs Police 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 Double Springs Police 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants on the website or 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. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Winston County jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file containing a court docket and all of the documents filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Double Springs Police Jail inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to check the Double Springs Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Double Springs Police 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 Double Springs Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 205-489-5447 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 Double Springs Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, 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 enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Double Springs Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 205-489-5447

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. 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 Double Springs Police Jail. 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to decrease 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 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. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Double Springs Police Jail, click the link below.

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