Jeffersonville Police Jail

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The Jeffersonville Police Jail is located at 1630 West Marshall Street in Jeffersonville, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the West Norriton Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Jeffersonville Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and tips that you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and also any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to others is much appreciated.

Jeffersonville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Jeffersonville Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also get information on anybody arrested and processed or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information more quickly if you enter their name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Jeffersonville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Jeffersonville Police Jail takes you through these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer a number of questions, like what is your full legal name, home address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to make a phone call so you can get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged can take between 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must 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, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Jeffersonville Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Jeffersonville Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 610-630-1701 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Jeffersonville Police Jail you have to be added to their approved visitation list.

Make 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 mobile phones are allowed at Jeffersonville Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain 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 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, 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 Jeffersonville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville 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 are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Jeffersonville Police Jail inmates might change, so you should double check the Jeffersonville Police Jail website when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 610-630-1701 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 Jeffersonville Police Jail store. You can buy several 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 products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Jeffersonville Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are a lot 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 jail rules, phone calls may be limited or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 610-630-1701

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all 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 Jeffersonville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails 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 these cases, the facility 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 Jeffersonville Police Jail, click the link below.

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