Summerhill Police Jail

---

The Summerhill Police Jail is located at 1654 Railroad Street in Summerhill, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Croyle Township Police Department.

This site tells you information about anything a person needs to know about the Summerhill Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and much more.

Top 10 Searches for Summerhill Police Jail

1. Summerhill Police Jail Information
2. Summerhill Police Jail Inmate Search
3. Cambria County Inmate Search in Summerhill, PA
4. Summerhill Police Jail Visitation Rules
5. What Are the Visitation Hours for Summerhill Police Jail
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Summerhill Police Jail
7. Summerhill Police Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Summerhill Police Jail
10. How to Search Cambria County Arrest Records

Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the advice and information you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that could help other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Summerhill Police Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Summerhill Police Jail Inmate List has information about individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can find the same information on anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their inmate information fast if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Summerhill Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Summerhill Police Jail takes you through 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.

First you will answer a number of questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take between 10 minutes to all day. So, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get released. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a release date, plan to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Summerhill Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s full name to the Summerhill Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put in a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor will be required to provide identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Summerhill Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the official Summerhill Police Jail at 814-495-5679 before you go.

---

Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Summerhill Police Jail you must have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Summerhill Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons probation, parole, or other community 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 and is a family member of 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Summerhill Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Summerhill 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Summerhill 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 Summerhill 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that contains a court docket and all documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Summerhill Police Jail is likely to change, so you should review the Summerhill Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Summerhill 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 Summerhill Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 814-495-5679 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 Summerhill Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from 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 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 Summerhill Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get reduced or cut altogether.

The Summerhill Police Jail phone number is: 814-495-5679

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Summerhill Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

12490