Park Ridge Police Jail

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The Park Ridge Police Jail is located at 33 Park Avenue in Park Ridge, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Park Ridge Police Department.

This guide tells you info about anything you might need to know about the Park Ridge Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Park Ridge Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information and advice that you need to make going to jail easier. If you have a question, just ask it, and any comments or feedback that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Park Ridge Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Park Ridge Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to get the same information about anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information more quickly if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Park Ridge Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Park Ridge Police Jail includes 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 have to answer some simple questions, such as your legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged may take between 15 minutes to all day. So, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Park Ridge Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Park Ridge Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will go in the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so call the jail at 201-391-5400 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Park Ridge Police Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Park Ridge Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 the 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 magazines to an inmate at the Park Ridge Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants 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 inquire at the information desk. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Bergen County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that includes a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. 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 a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail are always changing, so be sure to double check the Park Ridge Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 201-391-5400 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 Park Ridge Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products 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

The only phone calls that Park Ridge Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are generally more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 201-391-5400

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make 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 Park Ridge Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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