Stuart Police Jail

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The Stuart Police Jail is located at 100 North 2Nd Street in Stuart, IA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Stuart Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything you might need to know about the Stuart Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Stuart Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have questions, just ask them, and any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Stuart Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Stuart Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about people currently in custody, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get information on anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Stuart Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Stuart Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will have to answer a bunch of questions, like your full name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be released. Also, it will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Stuart Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Stuart Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitation log for the requesting inmate. All visitors must provide identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the official Stuart Police Jail at 515-523-1898 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No phones at Stuart Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 Stuart Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Stuart 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 Stuart 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 Stuart 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, you can access arrest warrants online or you are able to call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file containing a docket sheet and any documents filed in the case. You can access the court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Guthrie County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates at the Stuart Police Jail are always changing, so review the Stuart Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Stuart 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 Stuart Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 515-523-1898 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 Stuart 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 most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Stuart Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: 515-523-1898

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 off of 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 Stuart Police Jail. The prices 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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