Calistoga Police Jail

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The Calistoga Police Jail is located at 1235 Washington Street in Calistoga, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Calistoga Police Department.

This site tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Calistoga Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info that you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation is welcome.

Calistoga Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Calistoga Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can find info for anyone arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Calistoga Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Calistoga Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

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

You have to answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, address, date of birth and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

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

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to wear your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged may take from 10 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a release date, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Calistoga Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name to the Calistoga Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will go in a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Calistoga Police Jail are always changing, so it would be wise to call the facility at 707-942-2810 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Calistoga Police Jail you have to first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to take 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 phones are allowed at Calistoga Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 of age 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Calistoga Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Calistoga 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 Calistoga 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 Calistoga 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 an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the court records online or call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, 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 Napa County jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a court case file that includes a court docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to the Napa County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail can change at any time, so be sure to visit the Calistoga Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Calistoga 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 Calistoga Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 707-942-2810 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 Calistoga Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

All phone calls from the Calistoga Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Calistoga Police Jail phone number is: 707-942-2810

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Calistoga Police Jail. The prices 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 figuring 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where 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 facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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