Russellville Police Jail

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The Russellville Police Jail is located at 211 South Harrison Street in Russellville, IN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Russellville Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Russellville Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information and tips that you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Russellville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Russellville Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find information on anyone arrested and booked or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information faster if you have their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Russellville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Russellville Police Jail includes 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.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some questions, like your legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process will take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on if you have a cash bond or if the magistrate still needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Russellville Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give each visitor’s full name to the Russellville Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the jail at 765-435-2371 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Russellville Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones are allowed at Russellville Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Russellville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Russellville 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 Russellville 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 Russellville 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that contains a court docket and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates is likely to change, so we suggest that you review the Russellville Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Russellville 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 Russellville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 765-435-2371 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 Russellville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, 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 enough money 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 Russellville Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should 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.

Phone Number: 765-435-2371

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Russellville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 learning 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 calling 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 money on your inmate calls, 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 will be able to save you money.

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

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