Hamlet Police Jail

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The Hamlet Police Jail is located at 10 South Starke Street in Hamlet, IN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Hamlet Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Hamlet Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and advice you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, just ask them, and also any comments or tips that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Hamlet Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hamlet Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. You can also get information for anyone booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Hamlet Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Hamlet Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer a number of questions, such as your legal name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to use the phone in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process takes between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get discharged. It also can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate must determine how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the discharge date, you should plan to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Hamlet Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Hamlet Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Hamlet Police Jail change often, so call the facility at 574-867-2623 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No mobile phones at Hamlet Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not 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 a 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 Hamlet Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hamlet 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 Hamlet 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 Hamlet 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, you can find out by checking the court records online or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Starke County jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access your court records online, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal histories from other states. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates change frequently, so it would be best to visit the Hamlet Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hamlet 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 Hamlet Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 574-867-2623 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 Hamlet Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

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

All phone calls from the Hamlet Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about 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 jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 574-867-2623

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. 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 Hamlet Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where 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 or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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