Grayslake Police Jail

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The Grayslake Police Jail is located at 33 South Whitney Street in Grayslake, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Grayslake Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Grayslake Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Grayslake Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that might help others would be welcome.

Grayslake Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Grayslake Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find information on anybody 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 their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Grayslake Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Grayslake Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will answer a number of questions, such as what is your full name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can 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 quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. 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 release date, plan to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Grayslake Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide information about each visitor to the Grayslake Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will go into the log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Grayslake Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so call the facility at 847-223-2341 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Grayslake Police Jail you have to first be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

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

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 of age 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 Grayslake Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Grayslake 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 Grayslake 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 Grayslake 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access court records on the Lake County jail website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind 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, on the phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in the case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal background. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates are always changing, so you should review the Grayslake Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Grayslake 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 Grayslake Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 847-223-2341 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 Grayslake Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Grayslake Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get cut back or totally denied.

The Grayslake Police Jail phone number is: 847-223-2341

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make 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 Grayslake Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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