Zion Police Jail

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The Zion Police Jail is located at 2101 Salem Boulevard in Zion, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Zion Police Department.

This page tells you information about anything you might want to know about the Zion Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and advice you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to others will be appreciated.

Zion Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Zion Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find information for anybody arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Zion Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Zion Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your full legal name, address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail can take anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge has to figure out 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 served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Zion Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Zion Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into the visitors log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Zion Police Jail at 847-746-4000 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No phones are allowed at Zion Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Zion Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Zion 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 Zion 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 Zion 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check court records on the Lake County jail website or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file containing a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your case. You are able to access your court records online, or at the Lake County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to the Lake County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Zion Police Jail jail inmates could change, so we suggest that you visit the Zion Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Zion 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 Zion Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 847-746-4000 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 Zion Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, 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 sufficient funds in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Zion Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are generally more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted 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 jail rules, phone privileges might get reduced or totally denied.

Phone Number: 847-746-4000

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Zion 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 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 finding out how to decrease 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where 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 phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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