You may want to search for a certain inmate in JPay. You may want to contact him or her by calling through phone, doing video connect, sending email, sending money, or buying them a tablet. If you want to do these things, you need to find the inmate first. The question is how to search for a TDCJ inmate?
Searching TDCJ (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) Inmates in JPay
If you want to search an inmate from any state, the thing that you have to do is to access the JPay website. After that, you can click on the Inmate Search menu at the top of the homepage. Then, in the Inmate Search section, you have to choose the state and enter the inmate ID. After choosing the state and entering inmate ID, you have to hit the Find button.
If you have signed up, you are able to login first to your JPay account.
It seems that you can also find an inmate by accessing the Availability and Pricing page of the JPay site as long as you know the unit or facility where the inmate is incarcerated. To do that, first, you can access the JPay website and then click on the Prison Search menu at the top of the site. You will be taken to the Availability and Pricing page and there you have to scroll down and find Texas. Click on the Texas and then click on one of the units under the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Let’s say that the inmate resides in the Byrd unit. You can click on it and then you will be taken to the Byrd unit page where it contains the information about available JPay services and the contact of the unit. There, you can find the physical address and phone number of Byrd unit. You can contact Byrd unit to ask about the inmate that you are looking for.
Checking The Availability and Pricing of JPay Services in TDCJ
To check the availability and pricing of JPay services in TDCJ, you have to click on the Prison Search menu at the top of the Jpay page. Then, you will be taken to the Availability and Pricing page. On that page, you have to scroll to find Texas first and then click on it once you find it. Then, click on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. After you click on it, you will be taken to a page which contains the information about the availability of JPay services in Texas Department of Criminal Justice. When you access it, you will see that the available JPay services are sending money, email, outbound email, and phone prepaid/debit. To know the rates of each service, you are able to click on the Rates on that page.
As you know, under TDCJ, there are a lot of units such as Beto unit, Allred unit, Byrd unit and many more. Let’s say that you click on the Beto Unit under Texas Department of Criminal Justice on the Availability and Pricing page. You will be taken to a page of the availability and pricing of JPay services in Beto Unit which consist of sending money, email and phone prepaid/ debit. Under the information about the services and rates, there is the information about the physical address and phone number of the Beto unit and you can even find the driving directions to that unit.
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