Avoca Police Jail

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The Avoca Police Jail is located at 752 Main Street in Avoca, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Avoca Borough Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Avoca Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Avoca Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and tips you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or tips that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Avoca Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Avoca Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get info about anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Avoca Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

First you will have to answer a number of questions, like your full name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the phone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere between 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get released. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a judge must figure out your bail amount. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, plan to get discharged in the morning.

Avoca Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must list each visitor’s name to the Avoca Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will go into a log of visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the jail at 570-457-4011 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Avoca Police Jail you must be added to their approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Avoca Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Avoca Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Avoca 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 Avoca 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 Avoca 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 the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Luzerne County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are all connected and 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, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the Avoca Police Jail can change at any time, so be sure to check the Avoca Police Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Avoca 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 Avoca Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 570-457-4011 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 Avoca Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Avoca Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on 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 calls might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 570-457-4011

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls 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 Avoca 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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