Fort Benton Police Jail

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The Fort Benton Police Jail is located at 1204 Front Street in Fort Benton, MT and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Fort Benton Police Department.

This page tells you information about everything related to the Fort Benton Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Fort Benton Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that could be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Fort Benton Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Fort Benton Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find the same information on anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information faster if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Fort Benton Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Fort Benton Police Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will answer some questions, like your full name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you post bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you have a cash bond amount or if the judge still needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to get released in the morning.

Fort Benton Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Fort Benton Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be put into a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Each visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Fort Benton Police Jail change often, so make sure that you call the official Fort Benton Police Jail at 406-622-5494 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Fort Benton Police Jail you have to first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Fort Benton Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 younger than 18 years old and is not related to 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Fort Benton Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Fort Benton 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 Fort Benton 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 Fort Benton 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants online or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Chouteau County jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of people’s criminal history. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to the Chouteau County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any of the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates at the Fort Benton Police Jail change frequently, so it would be best to review the Fort Benton Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Fort Benton 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 Fort Benton Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 406-622-5494 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 Fort Benton Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, 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 money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products including 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 Fort Benton Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 406-622-5494

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make 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 Fort Benton 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 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where 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 cases like this, the jail has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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