Mount Vernon Police Jail

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The Mount Vernon Police Jail is located at 319 East Dallas Street in Mount Vernon, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mount Vernon Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Mount Vernon Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Mount Vernon Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mount Vernon Police Jail Inmate List has information about individuals who have been arrested, including current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get info for anybody booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Mount Vernon Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Mount Vernon Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will answer some basic questions, like what is your full name, street address, birth date and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental 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 are released.

You will be allowed to use the phone in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

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

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged may take from 15 minutes to all day long. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, plan to be released that morning.

Mount Vernon Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide each visitor’s name to the Mount Vernon Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the official Mount Vernon Police Jail at 417-466-2122 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Mount Vernon 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 visit because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Mount Vernon Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of 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, 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Mount Vernon Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon 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 for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Lawrence County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and all filings and documents filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at the Lawrence County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail change frequently, so be sure to visit the Mount Vernon Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 417-466-2122 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 Mount Vernon Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need 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 items that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their 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

The only phone calls that Mount Vernon Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 417-466-2122

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Mount Vernon Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 figuring out 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison 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 Mount Vernon Police Jail, click the link below.

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