Plain Dealing Police Jail

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The Plain Dealing Police Jail is located at 209 West Mary Lee Avenue in Plain Dealing, LA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Plain Dealing Police Department.

This page tells you information about anything related to the Plain Dealing Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Plain Dealing Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Bossier Parish court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and tips you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Plain Dealing Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Plain Dealing Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals currently in custody, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also get info for anyone booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate the information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Plain Dealing Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Plain Dealing Police Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

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

You will then be allowed to make a phone call so you can talk to 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, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get discharged. It also will depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the judge still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Plain Dealing Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Plain Dealing Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be entered into the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the official Plain Dealing Police Jail at 318-326-4234 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Plain Dealing Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Plain Dealing Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 Plain Dealing Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Plain Dealing 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 Plain Dealing 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 Plain Dealing 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 think you have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Bossier Parish court website or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Bossier Parish jail, either by 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, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket and all of the documents filed in your case. You can access court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to the Bossier Parish Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to people in jail can change at any time, so it would be best to double check the Plain Dealing Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Plain Dealing 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 Plain Dealing Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 318-326-4234 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 Plain Dealing Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Plain Dealing Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are a lot pricier 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 bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

The Plain Dealing Police Jail phone number is: 318-326-4234

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Plain Dealing Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 figuring out how to decrease 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 a lot of money 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 calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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