Crawfordsville Police Jail

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The Crawfordsville Police Jail is located at 311 North Green Street in Crawfordsville, IN and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Crawfordsville Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything related to the Crawfordsville Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Crawfordsville Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Montgomery County court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make the process easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Crawfordsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Crawfordsville Police Jail Inmate Roster is a list of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find information on anybody arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate their inmate information fast if you have the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Crawfordsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Crawfordsville Police Jail includes these steps:

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

You will answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged takes anywhere between 30 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will be released. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, plan to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Crawfordsville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give information about each visitor to the Crawfordsville Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 765-362-3762 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Crawfordsville Police Jail you must be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Crawfordsville Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 under the age of 18 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 magazines to an inmate at the Crawfordsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Crawfordsville 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 Crawfordsville 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 Crawfordsville 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 can access court records on the website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that contains a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are connected and you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to the Montgomery County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to review the Crawfordsville Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Crawfordsville 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 Crawfordsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 765-362-3762 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 Crawfordsville Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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 Crawfordsville Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Crawfordsville Police Jail phone number is: 765-362-3762

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 the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Crawfordsville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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