Cheshire County Corrections

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The Cheshire County Corrections is located at 160 River Road in Westmoreland, NH and is a medium security county jail operated by the Cheshire County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Cheshire County Corrections, such as how to find an inmate at the Cheshire County Corrections, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you info that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that could help others will be much appreciated.

Cheshire County Corrections Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Cheshire County Corrections Inmate List has information about individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find the same information about anybody booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their inmate information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Cheshire County Corrections Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Cheshire County Corrections takes you through these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First, you must answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your legal name, your address, date of birth and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to make a telephone call so you can call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the judge still needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Cheshire County Corrections Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to provide each visitor’s name to the Cheshire County Corrections in advance. Your visitors will be entered into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor must provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so you should call the jail at (603) 399-7794 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Cheshire County Corrections you must first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Cheshire County Corrections, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of 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 of age 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Cheshire County Corrections. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Cheshire County Corrections 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 Cheshire County Corrections. 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 Cheshire County Corrections 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the court records on the Cheshire County jail website or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Cheshire County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records 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 that includes a court docket and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Cheshire County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail might change, so it would be best to check the Cheshire County Corrections site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Cheshire County Corrections

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 Cheshire County Corrections uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (603) 399-7794 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 Cheshire County Corrections store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Cheshire County Corrections are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, phone calls may be limited or totally denied.

The Cheshire County Corrections phone number is: (603) 399-7794

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Cheshire County Corrections. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 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. 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 calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Cheshire County Corrections, click the link below.

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