Canton Police Jail

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The Canton Police Jail is located at 2 North Main Street in Canton, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Canton Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Canton Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Canton Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to others would be much appreciated.

Canton Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Canton Police Jail Inmate Search has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get information about anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their arrest information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Canton Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Canton Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will answer a number of questions, like your full legal name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to use the phone in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed 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 bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if the judge must decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, expect to be released in the morning.

Canton Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Canton Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will go in the visitation log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the facility at 309-647-5131 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Canton Police Jail you must first have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Canton Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not 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 under the age of 18 and is not related to the inmate, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Canton Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Canton 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 Canton 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 Canton 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access the court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Canton Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Canton 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 Canton Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 309-647-5131 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 Canton Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These items 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 Canton Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 309-647-5131

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each 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 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 Canton Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 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 inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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