Brookville Police Jail

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The Brookville Police Jail is located at 634 Main Street in Brookville, IN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Brookville Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything related to the Brookville Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Brookville Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer info you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Brookville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Brookville Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting hours. You can find info on anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get the information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Brookville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Brookville Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you must answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

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

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere between 15 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Brookville Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide information about each visitor to the Brookville Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor must provide identification. Any visitors showing up late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the facility at 765-647-4178 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Brookville Police Jail you must first be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Brookville Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 a 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 Brookville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Brookville 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 Brookville 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 Brookville 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and all documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to the Franklin County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail could change, so it would be best to review the Brookville Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Brookville 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 Brookville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 765-647-4178 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 Brookville Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough 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

The only phone calls that Brookville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep 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 phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: 765-647-4178

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 these phone service providers make 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 Brookville 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 finding 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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