Potsdam Police Jail

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The Potsdam Police Jail is located at 38 Main Street in Potsdam, NY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Potsdam Police Department.

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

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer info you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have questions, just ask them, and any comments or feedback that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Potsdam Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Potsdam Police Jail Inmate Search has information about individuals currently in custody, including status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get the same information for anybody booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get the information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Potsdam Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Potsdam Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

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

You will have to answer a number of questions, such as your legal name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process can take from 10 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will be released. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond or if a magistrate has to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Potsdam Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list information about each visitor to the Potsdam Police Jail in advance. This information will be put into the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

The Potsdam Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so you should call the jail at 315-265-2121 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Potsdam Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Potsdam Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Potsdam Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Potsdam 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 Potsdam 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 Potsdam 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants on the website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know 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, as well as their arrest date, contact the St Lawrence County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to the St Lawrence County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to review the Potsdam Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Potsdam 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 Potsdam Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 315-265-2121 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 Potsdam Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their 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

All phone calls from the Potsdam Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are typically more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Potsdam Police Jail phone number is: 315-265-2121

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 how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of all 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 Potsdam Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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. There are some circumstances where we won’t 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 rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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