Georgetown Police Jail

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The Georgetown Police Jail is located at 108 East State Street in Georgetown, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Georgetown Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Georgetown Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give information that you need to make the process easier. If you have questions, just ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that would help others is appreciated.

Georgetown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Georgetown Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about people who are in jail, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find information about anybody booked or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Georgetown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Georgetown Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you must answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge must determine how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, plan to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Georgetown Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s name to the Georgetown Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitors log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor is required to provide identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Georgetown Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so we suggest that you call the official Georgetown Police Jail at 937-378-6400 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Georgetown Police Jail you must first be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Georgetown Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not normally 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Georgetown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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 check arrest warrants inquiry on the Brown County jail website or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Brown County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file that includes a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the Brown County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are connected and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Brown County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail might change, so we suggest that you double check the Georgetown Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Georgetown 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 Georgetown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 937-378-6400 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 Georgetown Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably 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 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 Georgetown Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or totally denied.

The Georgetown Police Jail phone number is: 937-378-6400

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Georgetown Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility 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 Georgetown Police Jail, click the link below.

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