South Milwaukee Police Jail

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The South Milwaukee Police Jail is located at 2424 15Th Avenue in South Milwaukee, WI and is a medium security police department jail operated by the South Milwaukee Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might want to know about the South Milwaukee Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation is welcome.

South Milwaukee Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The South Milwaukee Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get information for anybody booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

South Milwaukee Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the South Milwaukee Police Jail includes the following steps:

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

First you must answer some questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get let go. It also will depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the release date, you should expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

South Milwaukee Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the South Milwaukee Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor must provide proof of identification. Any visitors arriving late or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 414-768-8060 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the South Milwaukee Police Jail you have to have your name on this person’s 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.

No phones at South Milwaukee Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the South Milwaukee Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the South Milwaukee 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 South Milwaukee 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 South Milwaukee 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access court records on the Milwaukee County court website or call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Milwaukee County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee 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 crimes, which can include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail is likely to change, so it would be best to double check the South Milwaukee Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at South Milwaukee 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 South Milwaukee Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 414-768-8060 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 South Milwaukee Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the South Milwaukee Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive 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 that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

The South Milwaukee Police Jail phone number is: 414-768-8060

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make 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 South Milwaukee 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 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 state prisons and local jails figuring 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 money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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