Riverton Police Jail

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The Riverton Police Jail is located at 501 5Th Street in Riverton, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Riverton Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Riverton Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Riverton Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any feedback or comments that would help others would be welcome.

Riverton Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Riverton Police Jail Inmate Locator is a list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get the same information about anyone booked or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Riverton Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Riverton Police Jail is made up of 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 thing you will have to to is you will answer some basic questions, such as what is your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

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

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process takes anywhere between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you post bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. It also depends on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate must decide on how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Riverton Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must list information about each visitor to the Riverton Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so call the facility at 856-829-1212 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Riverton Police Jail you must first have your name on 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.

No mobile phones at Riverton Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not normally 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 under the age of 18 and is not related to the inmate, this 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 Riverton Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Riverton 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 Riverton 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 Riverton 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants online or you are able to 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. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a docket sheet and all documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Burlington County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail might change, so check the Riverton Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Riverton 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 Riverton Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 856-829-1212 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 Riverton Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember 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 inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items 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

All phone calls from the Riverton Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: 856-829-1212

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Riverton Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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