Athol Police Jail

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The Athol Police Jail is located at 584 Main Street in Athol, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Athol Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about everything a person needs to know about the Athol Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Athol Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Athol Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Athol Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get info for anybody arrested and booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get their inmate information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Athol Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you use the phone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take from 30 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get released. It also depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate must figure out how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and are given a date of your release, expect to get released that morning.

Athol Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Athol Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a Visiting log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the jail at 978-249-3232 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Athol Police Jail you must be added to this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones at Athol Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Athol Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Athol 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 Athol 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 Athol 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 have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the court records on the Worcester County court website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Worcester County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that includes a docket and any filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to the Worcester County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the Athol Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Athol 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 Athol Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 978-249-3232 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 Athol Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want 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 buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

All phone calls from the Athol Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are generally pricier than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when and 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 break the jail rules, phone calls may be limited or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 978-249-3232

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 get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Athol Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to decrease 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 a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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