Sunland Park Police Jail

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The Sunland Park Police Jail is located at 1000 Mcnutt Road in Sunland Park, NM and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Sunland Park City Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Sunland Park Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Sunland Park Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Sunland Park Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Sunland Park Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find information about anybody arrested and booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can get the information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Sunland Park Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Sunland Park Police Jail includes these steps:

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

You have to answer some simple questions, like what is your legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the phone to get in touch with 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, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process may take anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will be released. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge needs to determine how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Sunland Park Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Sunland Park Police Jail in advance. This information will be put in the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Sunland Park Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the facility at 505-589-6600 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Sunland Park Police Jail you must first have your name on their visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Sunland Park Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of 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 Sunland Park Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Sunland Park 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 Sunland Park 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 Sunland Park 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants online or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Dona Ana County jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Dona Ana County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Sunland Park Police Jail is likely to change, so check the Sunland Park Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Sunland Park 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 Sunland Park Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 505-589-6600 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 Sunland Park Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates 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 personal 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Sunland Park Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates 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, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 505-589-6600

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make 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 Sunland Park Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances 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 has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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