Katonah Police Jail

---

The Katonah Police Jail is located at 1 Sunderland Lane in Katonah, NY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Somers Town Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Katonah Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

Top 10 Searches for Katonah Police Jail

1. Katonah Police Jail Information
2. Katonah Police Jail Inmate Search
3. Westchester County Inmate Search in Katonah, NY
4. Katonah Police Jail Visitation Rules
5. Katonah Police Jail Visitation Hours
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Katonah Police Jail
7. How to Send Inmate Care Packages to Katonah Police Jail
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Katonah Police Jail
10. How to Search Westchester County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any tips or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Katonah Police Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Katonah Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get info for anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can locate their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Katonah Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Katonah Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You will answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get released. Also, it can depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out the bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Katonah Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give information about each visitor to the Katonah Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will go in the visitation log as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the official Katonah Police Jail at 914-232-9622 before you try to visit an inmate.

---

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Katonah Police Jail you must 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 visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones are allowed at Katonah Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not going to be 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Katonah Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Katonah 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Katonah 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 Katonah 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 Westchester County court website or call the court directly. 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. 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 the date of their arrest, contact the Westchester County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that includes a court docket and all documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to the Westchester County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Katonah Police Jail could change, so review the Katonah Police Jail website before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Katonah 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 Katonah Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 914-232-9622 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 Katonah Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products 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 Katonah Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are much pricier than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions 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 that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: 914-232-9622

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Katonah 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 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 learning 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 significantly 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 in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

10523