St Lawrence County Jail

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The St Lawrence County Jail is located at 48 Court Street in Canton, NY and is a medium security county jail operated by the St Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you info about anything a person needs to know about the St Lawrence County Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the St Lawrence County 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 offer information and advice that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that might help others is appreciated.

St Lawrence County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The St Lawrence County Jail Inmate Search is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find the same information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their inmate information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

St Lawrence County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the St Lawrence County Jail is made up of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer some basic questions, like your legal name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the telephone in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process takes from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate must decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

St Lawrence County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name to the St Lawrence County Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor is required to provide identification. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so you should call the facility at (315) 379-2367 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the St Lawrence County Jail you must first be added to their visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at St Lawrence County 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 approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 of age and is not related to the inmate, this 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 St Lawrence County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the St Lawrence 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 St Lawrence 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 St Lawrence 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 access arrest warrants inquiry on the St Lawrence County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access the court records on their website, or at the St Lawrence County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These state databases are connected and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the St Lawrence County Jail could change, so we suggest that you check the St Lawrence County Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at St Lawrence 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 St Lawrence County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (315) 379-2367 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 St Lawrence County Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely 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 products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 St Lawrence County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on 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 jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The St Lawrence County Jail phone number is: (315) 379-2367

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the inmate phone calls are split 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 St Lawrence County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning 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 significantly on calling 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 these cases, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at St Lawrence County Jail, click the link below.

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