Chisholm Police Jail

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The Chisholm Police Jail is located at 301 West Lake Street in Chisholm, MN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Chisholm Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Chisholm Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Chisholm Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that could help others would be much appreciated.

Chisholm Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Chisholm Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find the same information for anybody booked or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their arrest information fast if you enter their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Chisholm Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Chisholm Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some questions, like your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will 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 make a phone call so you can contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process takes between 30 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will be released. Also, how fast you get released depends on if you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Chisholm Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to list information about each visitor to the Chisholm Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so it would be wise to call the official Chisholm Police Jail at 218-254-7916 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Chisholm Police Jail you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones are allowed at Chisholm Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not 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 the 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Chisholm Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Chisholm 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 Chisholm 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 Chisholm 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 court records on the St Louis County jail website or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that includes a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in the case. You can access your court records on their website, or at the St Louis County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to the St Louis County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. 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 complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Chisholm Police Jail jail inmates could change, so be sure to review the Chisholm Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Chisholm 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 Chisholm Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 218-254-7916 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 Chisholm Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Chisholm Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or forbidden.

The Chisholm Police Jail phone number is: 218-254-7916

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the 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 Chisholm Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we will not 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 calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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