Franklin Police Jail

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The Franklin Police Jail is located at 32311 Franklin Road in Franklin, MI and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Franklin-Bingham Farms Police Department.

This page tells you info about anything you might need to know about the Franklin Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Franklin Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you info that you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Franklin Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Franklin Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can also get info on anybody arrested and processed or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Franklin Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Franklin Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some simple questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to use the phone to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get released. It also depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if the judge must determine how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a discharge date, expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Franklin Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to list information about each visitor to the Franklin Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will go into a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 248-626-9672 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Franklin Police Jail you have to have your name on this person’s approved 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 phones are allowed at Franklin Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Franklin Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants online or you can call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Oakland County jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to the Oakland County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Franklin Police Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so visit the Franklin Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Franklin 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 Franklin Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 248-626-9672 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 Franklin Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products 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 Franklin Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 248-626-9672

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. 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 Franklin Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 finding out how to lower 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 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 jail or prison has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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