Anna Police Jail

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The Anna Police Jail is located at 201 East Vienna Street in Anna, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Anna Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Anna Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you advice and information you need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any feedback or comments that would help others will be appreciated.

Anna Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Anna Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals currently in custody, which includes status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you are able to get information for anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can get their arrest information fast if you have their name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Anna Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Anna Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some questions, like what is your legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to use the phone to call family, friends, or loved one.

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

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. Also, it might depend on whether you have a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Anna Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s full name to the Anna Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor has to provide identification. Visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so call the facility at 618-833-8571 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Anna Police Jail you must first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Anna Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Anna Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Anna 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 Anna 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 Anna 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 are able to check the arrest warrants on the website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know 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, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Union County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These databases are connected so you can track criminal convictions from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Anna Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so be sure to review the Anna Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Anna 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 Anna Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 618-833-8571 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 Anna Police Jail store. You can purchase several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need 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 buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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

The only phone calls that Anna Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally pricier than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 618-833-8571

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from 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 Anna 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 is an expert in keeping up 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. There are some prisons or jails 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 cases like this, the facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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