Inver Grove Heights Police Jail

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The Inver Grove Heights Police Jail is located at 8150 Barbara Avenue in Inver Grove Heights, MN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Inver Grove Heights Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything related to the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or tips that might help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Inver Grove Heights Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Inver Grove Heights Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find the same information for anyone processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information fast if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Inver Grove Heights Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

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

The first step is that you will have to answer some questions, like what is your full name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will be allowed to use the phone in order to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get discharged. It also depends on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the judge needs to figure out your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Inver Grove Heights Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put into the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the facility at 651-450-2525 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail you must first have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Inver Grove Heights Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep 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 first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and any documents filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to the Dakota County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates at the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail is likely to change, so you should review the Inver Grove Heights Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 651-450-2525 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 Inver Grove Heights Police Jail store. You 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 use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase 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

The only phone calls that Inver Grove Heights Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: 651-450-2525

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from 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 Inver Grove Heights Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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