Nashwauk Police Jail

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The Nashwauk Police Jail is located at 2 Hawkins Avenue in Nashwauk, MN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Nashwauk Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Nashwauk Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Nashwauk Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a question, just ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Nashwauk Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Nashwauk Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about people who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find information for anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find the information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Nashwauk Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First you will have to answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to many hours. So, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get released. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, you should plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Nashwauk Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to list each visitor’s full name to the Nashwauk Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be put in a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so make sure that you call the facility at 218-885-1000 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Nashwauk Police Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Nashwauk Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Nashwauk Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Nashwauk 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 Nashwauk 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 Nashwauk 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 an outstanding warrant, you can check the court records online or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Itasca County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that contains a docket and any documents filed in your 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

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to the Itasca County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail might change, so we suggest that you check the Nashwauk Police Jail site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Nashwauk 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 Nashwauk Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 218-885-1000 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 Nashwauk Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items 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

All phone calls from the Nashwauk Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Nashwauk Police Jail phone number is: 218-885-1000

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all 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 Nashwauk 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 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 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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