Johnston City Police Jail

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The Johnston City Police Jail is located at 500 Washington Avenue in Johnston City, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Johnston City Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Johnston City Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Williamson County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information and tips that you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Johnston City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Johnston City Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can find information for anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their inmate information quicker if you’ve got their full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Johnston City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Johnston City Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you will answer a number of questions, like your legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to use the phone to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process will take from 10 minutes to many hours. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the judge must determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Johnston City Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s full name to the Johnston City Police Jail in advance. This information will be put in a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so make sure that you call the official Johnston City Police Jail at 618-983-6362 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Johnston City Police Jail you have to first have your name on their visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Johnston City 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 get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the 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 Johnston City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Johnston City 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 Johnston City 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 Johnston City 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, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Williamson County jail website or you are able to 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. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Johnston City Police Jail can change at any time, so you should visit the Johnston City Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Johnston City 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 Johnston City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 618-983-6362 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 Johnston City Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need 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 a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

The only phone calls that Johnston City Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are a lot pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must 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, phone privileges could be reduced or cut altogether.

The Johnston City Police Jail phone number is: 618-983-6362

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Johnston City 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 finding 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 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 will not be able to save you any money, 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 Johnston City Police Jail, click the link below.

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