Mount Pleasant Police Jail

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The Mount Pleasant Police Jail is located at 1 Etze Avenue in Mount Pleasant, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about everything a person needs to know about the Mount Pleasant Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the info that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or tips that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Mount Pleasant Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mount Pleasant Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in custody, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get the same information about anyone processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can get the information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Mount Pleasant Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Mount Pleasant Police Jail includes each 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 have to answer a bunch of questions, like what is your legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a phone call so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process takes from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get released from jail. It also will depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a date of your release, plan to be discharged that morning.

Mount Pleasant Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Mount Pleasant Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put in the visitors log for the inmate. Each visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies change often, so you should call the official Mount Pleasant Police Jail at 724-547-7210 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Mount Pleasant Police Jail you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Mount Pleasant Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must 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 a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Mount Pleasant Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant 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 check arrest warrants inquiry on the Westmoreland County court website or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that contains a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at the Westmoreland County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to the Westmoreland County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Mount Pleasant Police Jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to visit the Mount Pleasant Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 724-547-7210 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 Mount Pleasant Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably 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 items that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their 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

The only phone calls that Mount Pleasant Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates 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 ability to use the phone may be limited or totally denied.

Phone Number: 724-547-7210

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Mount Pleasant Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 figuring out how to lower 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. 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 jail has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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