Perth Amboy Police Jail

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The Perth Amboy Police Jail is located at 351 Rector Street in Perth Amboy, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Perth Amboy Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Perth Amboy Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Perth Amboy Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give info you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and also any comments or tips that would be beneficial to others is appreciated.

Perth Amboy Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Perth Amboy Police Jail Inmate Roster is a list of people who are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find information on anybody booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Perth Amboy Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Perth Amboy Police Jail is made up of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you will have to answer a number of questions, like your full legal name, home address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to use the telephone in order to talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

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

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take from 10 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will be released. Also, how fast you get released might depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and know the release date, expect to be discharged in the morning.

Perth Amboy Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Perth Amboy Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be put in a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Each and every visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors arriving late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Perth Amboy Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the facility at 732-324-3803 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Perth Amboy Police Jail you must first be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Perth Amboy Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 old and is not a family member of 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 Perth Amboy Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy 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 court records on the website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access court records online, or at the Middlesex County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DWI or DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Perth Amboy Police Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so be sure to review the Perth Amboy Police Jail site when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 732-324-3803 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 Perth Amboy Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear 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 products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their 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

All phone calls from the Perth Amboy Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are much more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone calls may be limited or eliminated completely.

The Perth Amboy Police Jail phone number is: 732-324-3803

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly 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 from 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 Perth Amboy Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning how to lower 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. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility 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 Perth Amboy Police Jail, click the link below.

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