Simsbury Police Jail

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The Simsbury Police Jail is located at 933 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, CT and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Simsbury Police Department.

This page will tell you info about everything related to the Simsbury Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Simsbury Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that could help others would be appreciated.

Simsbury Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Simsbury Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about people who are in jail, which includes status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find info about anybody arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Simsbury Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Simsbury Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer some questions, like your full legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call so you can get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged can take from 30 minutes to all day. So, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate must decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, 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 are given a discharge date, plan to be released that morning.

Simsbury Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s full name to the Simsbury Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put in the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Simsbury Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the jail at 860-658-3100 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Simsbury Police Jail you have to first be on their approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Simsbury Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 magazines to an inmate at the Simsbury Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Simsbury 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 Simsbury 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 Simsbury 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Hartford County jail website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on the internet, or at the Hartford County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to the Hartford County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive 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 any crimes, which can include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates are always changing, so we suggest that you visit the Simsbury Police Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Simsbury 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 Simsbury Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 860-658-3100 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 Simsbury Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products including 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 Simsbury Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are typically pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about 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 break the rules, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 860-658-3100

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the 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 Simsbury 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 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 these cases, the jail has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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