Vineyard Haven Police Jail

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The Vineyard Haven Police Jail is located at 681 Edgartown West Tisbury Road in Vineyard Haven, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the West Tisbury Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Vineyard Haven Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give advice and information that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or tips that could be a benefit to others would be appreciated.

Vineyard Haven Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Vineyard Haven Police Jail Inmate List is a roster of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can also get information about anyone booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information quicker if you enter the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Vineyard Haven Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Vineyard Haven Police Jail includes the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You must answer a bunch of questions, like what is your full legal name, street address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to make a phone call in order to get in touch with 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 get to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged takes from 10 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and know the discharge date, expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Vineyard Haven Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name to the Vineyard Haven Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in a log of approved visitors for the requesting inmate. Every visitor has to provide identification. Visitors showing up late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Vineyard Haven Police Jail can change, so call the jail at 508-693-0020 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Vineyard Haven Police Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Vineyard Haven Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Vineyard Haven Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Vineyard Haven 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 Vineyard Haven 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 Vineyard Haven 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 might have a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Dukes County court website or you can call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a court case file containing a court docket and any of the documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records on the website, or at the Dukes County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Dukes County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to people in jail might change, so be sure to check the Vineyard Haven Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Vineyard Haven 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 Vineyard Haven Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 508-693-0020 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 Vineyard Haven Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary on a daily basis, 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 sufficient funds in their 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 Vineyard Haven Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. 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 and are disciplined, phone privileges might get cut back or totally denied.

The Vineyard Haven Police Jail phone number is: 508-693-0020

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 get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all 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 Vineyard Haven Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 figuring out 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. 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 cases like this, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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