Eliot Police Jail

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The Eliot Police Jail is located at 27 Dixon Road in Eliot, ME and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Eliot Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Eliot Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Eliot Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find York County court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and also any comments or tips that might be beneficial to others is welcome.

Eliot Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Eliot Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find info about anybody arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Eliot Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Eliot Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some basic questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process may take between 15 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. It also depends on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the magistrate must decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, plan to be discharged that morning.

Eliot Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Eliot Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be put in the log for the inmate. All visitors will be required to provide identification. Anyone arriving late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the facility at 207-439-1890 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Eliot Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Eliot Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Eliot Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Eliot 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 Eliot 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 Eliot 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the York County court website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the York County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to the York County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history 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 offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Eliot Police Jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to check the Eliot Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Eliot 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 Eliot Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 207-439-1890 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 Eliot Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Eliot Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: 207-439-1890

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all of the 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 Eliot Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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