Southwick Police Jail

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The Southwick Police Jail is located at 11 Depot Street in Southwick, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Southwick Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything related to the Southwick Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Hampden County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you info you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Southwick Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Southwick Police Jail Inmate List is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find the same information for anybody arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their arrest information faster if you enter their full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Southwick Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Southwick Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First you will have to answer some simple questions, like your full legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail will take from 10 minutes to all day long. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Southwick Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list information about each visitor to the Southwick Police Jail before you can visit. This information will go into the log for the requesting inmate. All visitors must provide proof of identification. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so call the jail at 413-569-5348 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Southwick Police Jail you must first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Southwick Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 Southwick Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Southwick 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 Southwick 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 Southwick 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Hampden County court website or you can call the court 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 be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file that includes a court docket and any documents filed in your case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the Hampden County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail could change, so you should check the Southwick Police Jail website before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Southwick 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 Southwick Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 413-569-5348 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 Southwick Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy 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 like 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 Southwick Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are usually pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated altogether.

The Southwick Police Jail phone number is: 413-569-5348

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Southwick Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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. In some cases, we will not 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 has set their phone rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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