Elkhart Police Jail

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The Elkhart Police Jail is located at 1025 Richard Street in Elkhart, KS and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Elkhart Police Department.

This page tells you info about everything you might want to know about the Elkhart Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Elkhart Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give advice and information that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that would help others is much appreciated.

Elkhart Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Elkhart Police Jail Inmate Roster is a list of individuals currently in custody, including status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get information on anybody processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can get the information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Elkhart Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Elkhart Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will answer some simple questions, like what is your legal name, home address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a phone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released will depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate must decide on how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Elkhart Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list information about each visitor to the Elkhart Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Elkhart Police Jail can change, so make sure that you call the official Elkhart Police Jail at 620-697-4313 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Elkhart Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Elkhart Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they must 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 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 Elkhart Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Elkhart 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 Elkhart 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 Elkhart 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 for your arrest, you can check the court records online or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Morton County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and all documents filed in your case. You can access court records on the website, or at the Morton County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail change frequently, so it would be best to visit the Elkhart Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Elkhart 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 Elkhart Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 620-697-4313 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 Elkhart Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Elkhart Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are usually pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to 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 break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or totally denied.

The Elkhart Police Jail phone number is: 620-697-4313

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of 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 Elkhart Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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