Bowling Green Police Jail

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The Bowling Green Police Jail is located at 15 West Church Street in Bowling Green, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Bowling Green Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Bowling Green Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Bowling Green Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Bowling Green Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Bowling Green Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get the same information on anyone processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Bowling Green Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Bowling Green Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

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

First you have to answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call in order to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. This process may take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate still needs to determine your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, you should expect to get released that morning.

Bowling Green Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Bowling Green Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will go into the log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor has to provide identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Bowling Green Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the official Bowling Green Police Jail at 573-324-3200 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Bowling Green Police Jail you must first be on their visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Bowling Green Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Bowling Green Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green 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 check the court records on the Pike County jail website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Pike County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These databases are all linked and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or 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 someone in jail at the Bowling Green Police Jail is likely to change, so you should review the Bowling Green Police Jail website before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 573-324-3200 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 Bowling Green Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember 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 an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Bowling Green Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 573-324-3200

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies 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 profits off of all of the 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 Bowling Green Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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. There are some circumstances where 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 cases like this, 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 Bowling Green Police Jail, click the link below.

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