Whitinsville Police Jail

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The Whitinsville Police Jail is located at 1 Hope Street in Whitinsville, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Northbridge Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about everything one might want to know about the Whitinsville Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to others would be appreciated.

Whitinsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Whitinsville Police Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can also find information for anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate their arrest information quicker if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Whitinsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Whitinsville Police Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

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

First you have to answer some simple questions, such as what is your legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it will depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Whitinsville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Whitinsville Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitation log for the inmate. Each visitor must provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 508-234-6211 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Whitinsville Police Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Whitinsville Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 Whitinsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Whitinsville 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 Whitinsville 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 Whitinsville 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 for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the 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 be clear 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 the date of their arrest, contact the Worcester County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are accessible 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 includes a court docket and all documents filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Worcester County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and inquire, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Whitinsville Police Jail jail inmates could change, so you should check the Whitinsville Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Whitinsville 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 Whitinsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 508-234-6211 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 Whitinsville Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds 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 Whitinsville Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 508-234-6211

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 these phone service providers make off of all 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 Whitinsville Police Jail. The prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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. In some cases, 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 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 Whitinsville Police Jail, click the link below.

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