Hatfield Police Jail

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The Hatfield Police Jail is located at 59 Main Street in Hatfield, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Hatfield Police Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything related to the Hatfield Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Hatfield Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Hatfield Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hatfield Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get information about anybody arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Hatfield Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

You will answer a number of questions, such as what is your full name, address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have 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 call family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take between 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a bond amount or if a judge must figure out the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to be released in the morning.

Hatfield Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give each visitor’s name to the Hatfield Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go in the visitors log for the inmate. Each visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at 413-247-0323 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Hatfield Police Jail you have to be added to their approved visitation list.

Be 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 cellphones are allowed at Hatfield Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 a 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Hatfield Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hatfield 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 Hatfield 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 Hatfield 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Hampshire County jail website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail are always changing, so be sure to review the Hatfield Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hatfield 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 Hatfield Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 413-247-0323 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 Hatfield Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need 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 products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Hatfield Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep 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 might get cut back or totally denied.

The Hatfield Police Jail phone number is: 413-247-0323

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 the prices. The profits from all inmate phone calls 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 Hatfield Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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