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Grant Town Police Jail Information

Address

Grant Town Police Jail
304 Main Street
Grant Town, WV 26574

Phone Number

Phone: 304-278-7381

The Grant Town Police Jail is located at 304 Main Street in Grant Town, WV and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Grant Town Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Grant Town Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much more.

Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and tips you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have questions, just ask it, and any comments or tips that might be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Grant Town Police Jail Inmate Search

Do you have a family member, loved one, or friend that has gone to jail and want to contact them? Do you know someone who has been arrested and you don’t know how to find out where they are?

In order to search who is in jail at the Grant Town Police Jail you will have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grant Town Police Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of people currently in custody, including status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get the same information on anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get the information quicker if you’ve got their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Grant Town Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Grant Town Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will have to answer some simple questions, like your legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get released. It also can depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge needs to figure out your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Grant Town Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Grant Town Police Jail before you can visit. This information will be put into the visitors log for the requesting inmate. All visitors will be required to provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Grant Town Police Jail frequently change, so make sure that you call the jail at 304-278-7381 before you go to visitation.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

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

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Grant Town Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Grant Town Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grant Town 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.

Mailing Address

If you would like to send a letter to an inmate at Grant Town Police Jail, use this address:

Grant Town Police Jail
304 Main Street
Grant Town, WV 26574

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Grant Town Police Jail
304 Main Street
Grant Town, WV 26574

The Grant Town Police Jail inmate mail policy changes frequently, so you should double check the official Grant Town Police Jail site when you send a letter to an inmate there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Grant Town 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 Grant Town 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Marion County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. 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 the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to the Marion County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

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

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Grant Town Police Jail are always changing, so check the Grant Town Police Jail website when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grant Town 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 Grant Town Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 304-278-7381 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 inmateâ€™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 Grant Town Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, 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 money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Grant Town Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are usually more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and 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 under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 304-278-7381

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all 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 Grant Town Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 is 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not 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 or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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