Mokena Police Jail

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The Mokena Police Jail is located at 10907 Front Street in Mokena, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mokena Police Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Mokena Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Mokena Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that might help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Mokena Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mokena Police Jail Inmate List has information about people who are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find info for anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to find their inmate information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Mokena Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a number of questions, such as what is your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. So, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will be released. It also depends on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if the judge needs to determine the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, plan to be discharged in the morning.

Mokena Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s name to the Mokena Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will go into the log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the official Mokena Police Jail at 708-479-3912 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Mokena Police Jail you must be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Mokena Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 under the age of 18 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Mokena Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mokena 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 Mokena 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 Mokena 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 for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants on the Will County jail website or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, 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, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Will County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to the Will County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail are always changing, so it would be best to review the Mokena Police Jail website when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mokena 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 Mokena Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 708-479-3912 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 Mokena Police Jail store. You can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary 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

All phone calls from the Mokena Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, 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, phone privileges might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: 708-479-3912

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all inmate phone calls are shared 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 Mokena Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding 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 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. 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 so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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