Port Sanilac Police Jail

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The Port Sanilac Police Jail is located at 56 North Ridge Street in Port Sanilac, MI and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Port Sanilac Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything related to the Port Sanilac Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Port Sanilac Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and any tips or comments that could help others would be welcome.

Port Sanilac Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Port Sanilac Police Jail Inmate Roster is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including current status, and times you can visit. You can find info about anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their inmate information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Port Sanilac Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Port Sanilac Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

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

First, you have to answer some questions, such as what is your full name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask 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 get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to use the phone to talk to a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

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

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail will take between 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get released. It also might depend on if you have a cash bond amount or if the judge still needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the date of your release, expect to be released that morning.

Port Sanilac Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to list each visitor’s name to the Port Sanilac Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will go into the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 810-622-9131 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Port Sanilac Police Jail you have to have your name on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be 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 without it.

No cellphones at Port Sanilac Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a 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 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 Port Sanilac Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Port Sanilac 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 Port Sanilac 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 Port Sanilac 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 an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Sanilac County court website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to the Sanilac County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates are always changing, so double check the Port Sanilac Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Port Sanilac 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 Port Sanilac Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 810-622-9131 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 Port Sanilac Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary every day, 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 trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products like 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 Port Sanilac Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are much more expensive than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, phone calls might get reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: 810-622-9131

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 they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Port Sanilac Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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