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Vandalia Police Jail Information

Address

Vandalia Police Jail
201 East Park Street
Vandalia, MO 63382-1814

Phone Number

Phone: 573-594-3344

The Vandalia Police Jail is located at 201 East Park Street in Vandalia, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Vandalia Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Vandalia Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Vandalia Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and everything else.

Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you’ll need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that would help others will be welcome.

Vandalia Police Jail Inmate Search

Do you have a family member, loved one, or friend that is incarcerated and don’t know how to contact them? Do you know somebody who has been arrested and you want to locate them?

In order to look up who is in jail at the Vandalia Police Jail you have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Vandalia Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who are in jail, which includes status, and times you can visit. You can get info for anyone arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Vandalia Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Vandalia Police Jail is made up of each of the following 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 thing you will have to to is you have to answer a number of questions, such as your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone in order to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Vandalia Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Vandalia Police Jail before you can visit. This information will go into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so call the official Vandalia Police Jail at 573-594-3344 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Vandalia Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Vandalia Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Vandalia Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Vandalia 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.

Mailing Address

If you would like to send a letter to an inmate at Vandalia Police Jail, use this address:

Vandalia Police Jail
201 East Park Street
Vandalia, MO 63382-1814

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Vandalia Police Jail
201 East Park Street
Vandalia, MO 63382-1814

The Vandalia Police Jail mail policy is always changing, so be sure to review the the Vandalia Police Jail website when send a letter to someone in jail there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Vandalia 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 Vandalia 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 can check arrest warrants on the Audrain County court website or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person 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, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Audrain County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that includes a court docket and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Audrain County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Audrain County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you check the Vandalia Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Vandalia 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 Vandalia Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 573-594-3344 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 inmateâ€™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 Vandalia Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use 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 items that inmates can purchase if they have money in their account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Vandalia Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Vandalia Police Jail phone number is: 573-594-3344

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 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 Vandalia Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 finding out how to lower 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. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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