Minot Police Jail

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The Minot Police Jail is located at 515 2Nd Avenue Southwest in Minot, ND and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Minot Police Department.

This guide tells you information about anything related to the Minot Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give info that you’ll need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Minot Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Minot Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information about anybody booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Minot Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Minot Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First you will have to answer some basic questions, like your full name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

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

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. It also depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a release date, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Minot Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide information about each visitor to the Minot Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

Visitation procedures can change, so you should call the facility at 701-852-0111 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Minot Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Minot Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Minot Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Minot 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 Minot 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 Minot 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Ward County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Ward County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Minot Police Jail inmates are always changing, so it would be best to check the Minot Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Minot 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 Minot Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 701-852-0111 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 Minot Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have enough 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 Minot Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear 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 could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Minot Police Jail phone number is: 701-852-0111

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits 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 Minot Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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