Waretown Police Jail

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The Waretown Police Jail is located at 50 Railroad Avenue in Waretown, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Ocean Township Police Department.

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

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the info that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and also any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to others is welcome.

Waretown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Waretown Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about individuals who have been arrested, which includes status, and times you can visit. You can find the same information about anyone processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can find the information quicker if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Waretown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Waretown Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a number of questions, such as your full legal name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. It also depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be discharged that morning.

Waretown Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name to the Waretown Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Waretown Police Jail are always changing, so it would be wise to call the facility at 609-693-4007 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Waretown Police Jail you have to be on this person’s visitation list.

Make 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 Waretown Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If a 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 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 Waretown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Waretown 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 Waretown 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 Waretown 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can check the court records on the Ocean County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. 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 Ocean County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that contains a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records on their website, or at the Ocean County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Waretown Police Jail is likely to change, so it would be best to review the Waretown Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Waretown 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 Waretown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 609-693-4007 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 Waretown Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Waretown Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are usually pricier than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 609-693-4007

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the 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 Waretown Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, 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 will be able to save you money.

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

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