Erie Police Jail

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The Erie Police Jail is located at 2065 Erie Road in Erie, MI and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Erie Township Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Erie Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, 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 all the information and tips that you’ll need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that would help others would be much appreciated.

Erie Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Erie Police Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of people who are in jail, which includes status, and times you can visit. You can find information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information fast if you enter their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Erie Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Erie Police Jail includes these steps:

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

You have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a telephone call in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get released. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate has to determine how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should expect to be released in the morning.

Erie Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to provide each visitor’s name to the Erie Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. All visitors has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so it would be wise to call the facility at 734-848-4082 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Erie Police Jail you must first be on 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 visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Erie Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not normally 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 old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Erie Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Erie 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 Erie 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 Erie 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 an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Monroe County court website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can 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 for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Erie Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so it would be best to double check the Erie Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Erie 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 Erie Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 734-848-4082 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 Erie Police Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear 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 products 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 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

All phone calls from the Erie Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Erie Police Jail phone number is: 734-848-4082

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all 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 Erie Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 learning how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison 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 Erie Police Jail, click the link below.

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