Canton Police Jail

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The Canton Police Jail is located at 221 East Marietta Street in Canton, GA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Canton Police Department.

This page tells you info about everything one might want to know about the Canton Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the info that you’ll need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that would be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Canton Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Canton Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you are able to get info for anyone arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find their inmate information quicker if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Canton Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Canton Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

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

They will allow you to use the phone in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the faster you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you have a bond amount or if the judge still needs to determine how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Canton Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide information about each visitor to the Canton Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Canton Police Jail change often, so you should call the official Canton Police Jail at 770-479-5316 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Canton Police Jail you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Canton Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must 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 a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to the Cherokee County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the Canton Police Jail might change, so it would be best to check the Canton Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate 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 770-479-5316 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. You can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, 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 commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Canton Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or eliminated completely.

The Canton Police Jail phone number is: 770-479-5316

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to 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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