Shelbyville Police Jail

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The Shelbyville Police Jail is located at 109 Lane Parkway in Shelbyville, TN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Shelbyville Police Department.

This guide tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Shelbyville Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Shelbyville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer 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 them, and please leave any tips or comments that could be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Shelbyville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Shelbyville Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about people who have been arrested and are in custody, including status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get information about anyone booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to find the information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Shelbyville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Shelbyville Police Jail is made up of these steps:

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

You will have to answer a number of questions, like what is your legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone in order to call 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 will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged will take anywhere from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get let go. It also might depend on if you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to get discharged in the morning.

Shelbyville Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give information about each visitor to the Shelbyville Police Jail in advance. This information will be put in a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. All visitors is required to provide identification. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Shelbyville Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so call the jail at 931-684-5811 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Shelbyville Police Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be 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 cellphones are allowed at Shelbyville Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually 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 younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Shelbyville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Shelbyville 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 Shelbyville 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 Shelbyville 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the website or you can call the court. 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 know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that contains a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Bedford County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These databases are connected and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Shelbyville Police Jail jail inmates might change, so be sure to visit the Shelbyville Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Shelbyville 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 Shelbyville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 931-684-5811 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 Shelbyville 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 probably want to use 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 the inmate can buy if they have enough money 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

The only phone calls that Shelbyville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get cut back or totally denied.

The Shelbyville Police Jail phone number is: 931-684-5811

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Shelbyville Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate 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 Shelbyville Police Jail, click the link below.

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