Harwood Heights Police Jail

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The Harwood Heights Police Jail is located at 7300 West Wilson Avenue in Harwood Heights, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Harwood Heights Police Department.

This page will tell you info about anything one might want to know about the Harwood Heights Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Harwood Heights Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Harwood Heights Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Harwood Heights Police Jail Inmate List has information about people currently in custody, including custody status, and visiting hours. You can also get the same information on anyone processed or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Harwood Heights Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Harwood Heights Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will have to answer some simple questions, such as what is your full name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

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

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process can take from 30 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge must figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, expect to get discharged in the morning.

Harwood Heights Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to provide each visitor’s full name to the Harwood Heights Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will be put into the visitation log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor must provide identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 708-867-4343 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Harwood Heights Police Jail you have to be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Harwood Heights Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 Harwood Heights Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Harwood 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 Harwood 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 Harwood 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 might have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants online or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and any of the documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on the website, or at the Cook County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from other states. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Harwood Heights Police Jail inmates is likely to change, so be sure to visit the Harwood Heights Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Harwood 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 Harwood Heights Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 708-867-4343 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 Harwood Heights Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items 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

All phone calls from the Harwood Heights Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 rules, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Harwood Heights Police Jail phone number is: 708-867-4343

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 off of all of the 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 Harwood Heights 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 finding out how to lower 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. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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