Seneca County Jail

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The Seneca County Jail is located at 6150 Route 96 in Romulus, NY and is a medium security county jail operated by the Seneca County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Seneca County Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information and advice that you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is welcome.

Seneca County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Seneca County Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. You can also find info for anybody arrested and processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can get their arrest information faster if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Seneca County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Seneca County Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then 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 they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take anywhere between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate must figure out your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should plan to be discharged that morning.

Seneca County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s name to the Seneca County Jail in advance of the visit. This information will be entered into the visitors log as an approved visitor. Every visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

The Seneca County Jail visitation procedures can change, so call the official Seneca County Jail at (315) 220-3210 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Seneca County Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Seneca County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Seneca County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Seneca County 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 Seneca County 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 Seneca County 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 might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the Seneca County jail website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind 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 name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and all documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail can change at any time, so it would be best to check the Seneca County Jail site before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Seneca County 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 Seneca County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (315) 220-3210 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 Seneca County Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Seneca County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls might get reduced or cut altogether.

The Seneca County Jail phone number is: (315) 220-3210

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 Seneca County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 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 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 will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases 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 Seneca County Jail, click the link below.

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