Westfield Police Jail

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The Westfield Police Jail is located at 17535 Dartown Road in Westfield, IN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Westfield Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything related to the Westfield Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have specific questions, just ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Westfield Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Westfield Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people currently in custody, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you are able to get the same information for anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information quicker if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Westfield Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Westfield Police Jail includes these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

You will answer some questions, like your full name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the phone 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, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. This process takes from 15 minutes to all day. In other words the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged. It also will depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a judge must determine how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Westfield Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to give each visitor’s name to the Westfield Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will go in a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Westfield Police Jail are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Westfield Police Jail at 317-896-5236 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Westfield Police Jail you must have your name on their visitation list.

Make 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 without it.

No cellphones at Westfield Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not 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 old and is not a family member of 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 Westfield Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Westfield 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 Westfield 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 Westfield 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Hamilton County court website or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the Westfield Police Jail are always changing, so it would be best to check the Westfield Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Westfield 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 Westfield Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 317-896-5236 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 Westfield Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want 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 a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Westfield Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on 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 break the rules and are disciplined, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Westfield Police Jail phone number is: 317-896-5236

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the 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 Westfield Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on how much it costs you to call 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 cases like this, the facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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