Meshoppen Police Jail

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The Meshoppen Police Jail is located at Canal Street in Meshoppen, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Meshoppen Borough Police Department.

This page tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Meshoppen Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Meshoppen Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you advice and information that you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Meshoppen Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Meshoppen Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting hours. You can find information for anyone arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get the information quicker if you have their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Meshoppen Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Meshoppen Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will answer some simple questions, such as your full name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process can take from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Meshoppen Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must list each visitor’s name to the Meshoppen Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will go in a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

The Meshoppen Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at 570-833-4136 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Meshoppen Police Jail you have to first be on their visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Meshoppen Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 under the age of 18 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 Meshoppen Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Meshoppen 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 Meshoppen 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 Meshoppen 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 arrest warrants inquiry on the Wyoming County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. 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, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to the Wyoming County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Meshoppen Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so you should check the Meshoppen Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Meshoppen 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 Meshoppen Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 570-833-4136 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 Meshoppen Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably 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 an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Meshoppen Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically more costly than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 570-833-4136

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 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 Meshoppen Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 learning 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail 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 Meshoppen Police Jail, click the link below.

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