Hickory Hills Police Jail

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The Hickory Hills Police Jail is located at 8800 West 87Th Street in Hickory Hills, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Hickory Hills Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything related to the Hickory Hills Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Hickory Hills Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Hickory Hills Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hickory Hills Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get the same information about anybody arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information faster if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Hickory Hills Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Hickory Hills Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer some questions, like your full name, street address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to make a telephone call so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. So, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get let go. Also, it depends on whether you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must determine your bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged in the morning.

Hickory Hills Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s name to the Hickory Hills Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be entered in the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will be required to provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the facility at 708-598-4900 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Hickory Hills Police Jail you have to be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take 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 at Hickory Hills Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Hickory Hills Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills 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 Cook County jail website or call the jail. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and all of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to people in jail is likely to change, so we suggest that you review the Hickory Hills Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 708-598-4900 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 Hickory Hills Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These items 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

All phone calls from the Hickory Hills Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are generally more expensive than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 708-598-4900

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 profits these phone service providers make 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 Hickory Hills 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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