North East Police Jail

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The North East Police Jail is located at 58 East Main Street in North East, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the North East Police Department.

This guide tells you info about everything you might want to know about the North East Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the North East Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

North East Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The North East Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about individuals currently in custody, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get info on anyone processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find the information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

North East Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the North East Police Jail takes you through these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First you will have to answer some basic questions, such as your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, 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, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you use the phone so you can contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged. It also depends on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if a judge must figure out the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

North East Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the North East Police Jail in advance. This information will be entered in a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 814-725-4407 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the North East Police Jail you must first have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

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

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the North East Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the North East 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 North East 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 North East 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 on the Erie County court website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that contains a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail change frequently, so we suggest that you check the North East Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at North East 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 North East Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 814-725-4407 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 North East Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from 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 enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products such as 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 North East Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 814-725-4407

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all phone calls that inmates make 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 North East Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails learning 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 calling 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 money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail 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 North East Police Jail, click the link below.

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