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Gilbertville Police Jail Information

Address

Gilbertville Police Jail
14Th Avenue
Gilbertville, IA 50634

Phone Number

Phone: 319-240-8137

The Gilbertville Police Jail is located at 14Th Avenue in Gilbertville, IA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Gilbertville Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Gilbertville Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Gilbertville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and also any tips or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Gilbertville Police Jail Inmate Search

Do you know someone in jail and need to find out where they are? Do you know somebody that has been arrested and you want to find out where they are?

In order to find out who’s in jail at the Gilbertville Police Jail you will have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Gilbertville Police Jail Inmate Locator has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find information for anyone arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you enter their first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Gilbertville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Gilbertville Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

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

You must answer a number of questions, such as your legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to make a telephone call to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes between 30 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to determine how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Gilbertville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Gilbertville Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in a log of approved visitors for the inmate. All visitors has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Gilbertville Police Jail are always changing, so make sure that you call the official Gilbertville Police Jail at 319-240-8137 before you go to visitation.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Gilbertville Police Jail you have to first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Gilbertville Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Gilbertville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Gilbertville 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.

Mailing Address

Use this address when sending a letter to an inmate at Gilbertville Police Jail:

Gilbertville Police Jail
14Th Avenue
Gilbertville, IA 50634

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Gilbertville Police Jail
14Th Avenue
Gilbertville, IA 50634

The Gilbertville Police Jail mail policy changes frequently, so be sure to review the site before you send a letter to an inmate there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Gilbertville 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 Gilbertville 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can access court records on the Black Hawk County court website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These online databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to the Black Hawk County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Gilbertville Police Jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you review the Gilbertville Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Gilbertville 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 Gilbertville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 319-240-8137 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 inmateâ€™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 Gilbertville Police Jail store. You can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Gilbertville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Gilbertville Police Jail phone number is: 319-240-8137

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly 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 these phone service providers make from 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 Gilbertville Police Jail. The rates 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 finding out how to decrease 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 will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail 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 Gilbertville Police Jail, click the link below.

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