HENDRICKS COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

 

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Major Harold Gibson

Captain Megen Morgan

 

 

Visitation:

Hendricks County Jail conducts Open Visitation, there are no appointments.  Inmates may have a weekly 30-minute visit with maximum of 2 visitors.  Visitation is first come/first serve.  First 2 visitors registering will be allowed to visit.  All visitors are required to produce picture identification when signing in for visitation.  There is no longer requirement for children to have prior approval.  Children 1 year and older count as one of the 3 weekly visitors.  Exception are infants (11 months and younger) that may be carried or sit on lap.  The schedule of Visitation is as follows for each housing assignment.  Property (books/clothing) can’t be accepted for inmates during visitation.

If you arrive late and are allowed to visit, you will have only the time that is remaining to visit.  It will be at the discretion of the Jail Supervisor if you will be allowed to visit.

 

Visitation Schedule by Cell Block:

All inmates can have a weekly 30 minute visit with two adult visitors.  Visitors sign up

15 minutes prior to visitation start time with photo ID.  Person(s) under 18 years can

visit if accompanied by person 18 years or older.  Person(s) 17 years and younger

that visit count as one of the two authorized visitors.

 

Visitation Day      Cellblock              Time        

Saturday              Holding, 1 East,

  MALES              1 West               0800 

 

                           2 East                0900 

 

                           Yellow                1000 

 

                           Blue                   1300 

 

                           Green                 1600

 

                           Red                    1800

 

                           2 West               1900

 

Sunday               3 East                  0800

  FEMALES

                          3  West                0900

 

       Lower Blue / Inmate Workers   1800

 

Processing Fee:  By Order of Hendricks County Commissioners, all inmates will be charged each time they are incarcerated a mandatory, non-refundable $25.00 Processing Fee.  This fee must be paid FIRST before any funds are credited to an Inmate’s Commissary/Trust Fund Account (thus allowing the Inmates to order from Commissary).

 

Inmate Correspondence

Items that will be accepted through the mail are letters, greeting cards, or post cards.

 

Packages, newspapers, magazines , stamps or homemade cards will not be accepted.  Any letters determined to have been sprayed with perfume, or letters containing lipstick prints will not be given to the inmate, but will go directly into the inmates property.

 

 

Anyone wishing to write to an Inmate must address the envelope as follows:

 

Inmate’s Name: ____________________________

Prisoner ID Number: ________________________

Post Office Box 87

Danville, IN 46122-0087

 

All mail must include COMPLETE “Return Name &Address”.  Correspondence without a return address is non-deliverable.

 

Library Books:  No books will be accepted at the Hendricks County Jail unless mailed from a bookstore or a publisher. 

 

Bonding:  Bond information can be obtained by calling the Jail at (317)-745-9332; 24 hours daily.

 

Commercial Bonds:  Commercial Bonds require an indemnifier (co-signer) and a bondsman who receive a nonrefundable 10% of total bond from indemnifier.  Acceptance of Cash, Check, and Money Order, credit card or any kind of collateral is at the sole discretion of the Bondsman.  Anyone wishing to post a commercial bond must contact a bondsman of their own choosing; the jail staff can’t contact bondsman. Out of state, non-Indiana inmates may require 110% collateral to bondsman. Open Court Bonds may require appearance in court of defendant, indemnifier and bondsman.  Bondsman can make arraignments with court to schedule appearance for open court bonds.

 

Cash Bonds:  Cash bonds are 100% of amount and require an indemnifier but don’t require a bondsman. Jail Staff will complete cash bond forms and direct indemnifier to Clerk’s Office for payment and indemnifier returns to jail with receipt.  After business hours, on weekends and Holidays the jail will complete cash bond forms and accept money orders made payable to either the Hendricks County Clerk or Plainfield Town Clerk or Brownsburg Town Clerk.

 

An Inmate can, without notice, be released time served or by Court Order and/or transported to other agencies. Transport information will not be released for security/safety reasons.

 

Commissary Funds:  Will be accepted by Postal Money Order only and may be mailed to the Inmate’s attention, in the following manner:  Inmate Name, ID # and Who It Is From, on the face of money order. The envelope needs the same information with a return name & address.   No personal checks or pay roll checks will be accepted and will be returned to sender.  Upon receipt, money orders are applied to the Inmates Individual Trust Fund Account, and they are notified by a receipt.  Funds can also be credited 24 hours, 7 days a week by using Touch Pay. Online at TouchPay Direct or telephone toll free 1-866-232-1899. Our facility locator number is 246101. Hendricks County, IN.  Must know/use Inmate ID number and name.

Commissary is issued twice weekly, usually on Tuesday and Friday evenings.  Funds must be received by noon on Monday and by noon on Thursday.  If an inmate is released or transferred before commissary is issued, it will be credited and the money put back on his / her account.

 

Vehicle Tow Impound:  Vehicle tow-in information (provided the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office is the arresting agency) can be obtained from the Administrative Office at (317) 745-6269 during business hours or the jail after hours. Otherwise, Vehicle Releases must be obtained from the appropriate arresting agency.

Vehicle Releases are provided to the registered owner(s) ONLY. However, if the registered owner is incarcerated, Vehicle Releases can be obtained by acquiring a notarized statement from the Inmate releasing the vehicle to an authorized person.  Please contact the Jail Staff or the Sheriff’s Staff for this form.

 

If you have additional questions or need further assistance, feel free to contact any Jail Staff member in person or by telephone at (317)-745-9332, available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.

 

Inmate’s use of Telephones:  Inmates have telephones available in their housing areas daily from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight.  Inmate phones may only call collect. Inmate telephones can not call cell phones, pagers, internet phones etc.   The jail no longer sells phone cards in the lobby.  However phone cards may be purchased on commissary.  All inmates must call their families collect.  Family members and friends may have to set up an account with our inmate telephone provider GTL to accept collect calls.  GTL toll free telephone number is 1-866-230-7761.

 

New Inmates are provided opportunity to use the telephone after processing and during each 8-hour shift while in Holding Cells pending court arraignment and classification to a housing unit.  No phone calls are offered between 1200 P.M. - 6 A.M. to inmates housed in Holding.

 

Sheriff and Jail Staff can only deliver verifiable emergency telephone messages.  Jail Supervisor will verify thru Hospital, Coroner, and Funeral Home etc.

 

Inmate Medical:  The Hendricks County Jail provides medical care with Physicians and Registered Nurses through a licensed health care provider. Sick call for inmates is available daily (scheduling varies.) There is a $10.00 co-pay for doctor visits, and nurse sick calls, $10.00 medication co-pay. Dental care is provided within the facility. Dental care is provided for extraction and infection control. There is a $10.00 co-pay for dental visits.  Inmates will be assessed a $10.00 fee for all labs and x-rays.

 

While incarcerated; the inmate is under the care of the jail physician, who will insure medical care is provided.  Medication/Prescription refills may be brought in for authorization by the jail physician.  If approved, they will be given in accordance with jail physician’s order.  Emergency care is provided 24 hours daily 7 days a week at Hendricks County Community Hospital.

           

Information regarding an inmate’s medical status can only be released through proper medical channels with HIPPA Form authorization (doctor’s office, hospitals, etc.) Information can’t be released to family members or friends.

 

Dietary Requirements:  Any necessary dietary requirements must be directed to the attention of the Jail and Medical Staff. These special dietary requirements are reviewed and prescribed by Jail Physician and/or approved by Jail Commander and Kitchen Manager/Dietician.

 

INMATE CLOTHING ITEMS 

WOMEN –

Only 3 pair of each (new underwear and new sports/no underwire bras white only) may be dropped off within the first SEVEN (7) days of incarceration.  Items can only be dropped off between the hours of 0900 to 1500 Monday - Friday only to the Jail Secretaries. 

MEN-

NO CLOTHING items may be dropped off for male inmates.

(ONLY exception is for a Court Appearance.  Arrangements must be made in advance)

 

NO BOOKS, CROSSWORD PUZZLES, OR MAGAZINES