Garrettsville Police Jail

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The Garrettsville Police Jail is located at 8123 High Street in Garrettsville, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Garrettsville Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Garrettsville Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Garrettsville Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Portage County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information and tips that you need to make going to jail easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others is much appreciated.

Garrettsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Garrettsville Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of people currently in custody, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find information on anyone booked or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information faster if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Garrettsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Garrettsville Police Jail includes each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will have to answer a bunch of questions, like your full legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take between 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will be freed. It also might depend on if you have a bond amount or if the judge must decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the date of your release, plan to be released between 9am and noon.

Garrettsville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give each visitor’s full name to the Garrettsville Police Jail in advance of the visit. This information will be put in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor is required to provide identification. Visitors arriving late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

The Garrettsville Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so it would be wise to call the official Garrettsville Police Jail at 330-527-2414 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Garrettsville Police Jail you have to first be added to their 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 cellphones are allowed at Garrettsville Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Garrettsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Garrettsville 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 Garrettsville 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 Garrettsville 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Portage County court website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. 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 first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and all filings and documents filed in the case. You can access the court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail can change at any time, so double check the Garrettsville Police Jail website when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Garrettsville 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 Garrettsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 330-527-2414 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 Garrettsville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Garrettsville Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are much more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Garrettsville Police Jail phone number is: 330-527-2414

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from 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 Garrettsville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 learning 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 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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