Murray Police Jail

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The Murray Police Jail is located at 5024 South State Street in Murray, UT and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Murray Police Department.

This guide tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Murray Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Murray Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and also any feedback or comments that might help others is much appreciated.

Murray Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Murray Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of people who are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can find information for anybody booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can get the information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Murray Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Murray Police Jail includes these 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.

You must answer some basic questions, such as your full name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to use the telephone 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 get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the quicker you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the judge still needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Murray Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name to the Murray Police Jail before you can visit. This information will go in the log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors showing up late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the official Murray Police Jail at 801-264-2673 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Murray Police Jail you must be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Murray Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of 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 younger than 18 years old 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 Murray Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray 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 can check the arrest warrants on the Salt Lake County jail website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Salt Lake County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a case file that includes a court docket and all documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Salt Lake County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug crimes, 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 Murray Police Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so double check the Murray Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Murray 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 Murray Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 801-264-2673 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 Murray Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, like 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 cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust 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 Murray Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are typically more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden.

The Murray Police Jail phone number is: 801-264-2673

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make 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 Murray Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not 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 so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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