Eminence Police Jail

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The Eminence Police Jail is located at 204 Main Street in Eminence, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Eminence Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything related to the Eminence Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information and advice that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Eminence Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Eminence Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find the same information about anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you have the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Eminence Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Eminence Police Jail includes each of these steps:

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

The first step is that you will answer some questions, like what is your legal name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will be allowed to use the telephone in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process takes between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Eminence Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Eminence Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be put into a log of approved visitors for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Eminence Police Jail can change, so you should call the jail at 573-226-3013 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Eminence Police Jail you have to have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

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

If the 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, this 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 Eminence Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Eminence 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 Eminence 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 Eminence 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 website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Bear 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, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to the Shannon County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates at the Eminence Police Jail can change at any time, so review the Eminence Police Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Eminence 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 Eminence Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 573-226-3013 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 Eminence Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal hygiene products such as 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 Eminence Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Eminence Police Jail phone number is: 573-226-3013

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all 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 Eminence Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning 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 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 calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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