Silver Bay Police Jail

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The Silver Bay Police Jail is located at 7 Davis Drive in Silver Bay, MN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Silver Bay Police Department.

This site will tell you info about everything you might want to know about the Silver Bay Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Silver Bay Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Lake County court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and tips that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and any comments or tips that might be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Silver Bay Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Silver Bay Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get information on anyone arrested and booked or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Silver Bay Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Silver Bay Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer some questions, such as your legal name, street address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call in order to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you wear your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged will take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to determine your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the discharge date, plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Silver Bay Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list information about each visitor to the Silver Bay Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a log of approved visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 218-226-4486 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Silver Bay Police Jail you must be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Silver Bay Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to 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 related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Silver Bay Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Silver Bay 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 Silver Bay 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 Silver Bay 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Lake County jail website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that contains a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access your court records online, or at the Lake County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Lake County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any of the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Silver Bay Police Jail jail inmates is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Silver Bay Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Silver Bay 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 Silver Bay Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 218-226-4486 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 Silver Bay Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind 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 money in their 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

All phone calls from the Silver Bay Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must 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 ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: 218-226-4486

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Silver Bay Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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