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Piper City Police Jail Information

Address

Piper City Police Jail
133 East Peoria Street
Piper City, IL 60959

Phone Number

Phone: 815-686-2462

The Piper City Police Jail is located at 133 East Peoria Street in Piper City, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Piper City Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything related to the Piper City Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Piper City Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and more.

Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information that you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that would help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Piper City Police Jail Inmate Search

Do you have a family member or friend that is incarcerated and need to find out where they are? Do you know a friend or family member that has been arrested and you don’t know how to find them?

To search who is in jail at the Piper City Police Jail you will need to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Piper City Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes current status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find the same information on anyone arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Piper City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Piper City Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you will answer a bunch of questions, like your full legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to make a phone call in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged takes from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get released. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if the magistrate has to figure out the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Piper City Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide each visitor’s name to the Piper City Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be put into a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Each visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Any visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Piper City Police Jail at 815-686-2462 before you try to go to visitation.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Piper City Police Jail you must be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Piper City Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 magazines to an inmate at the Piper City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Piper City 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.

Mailing Address

Use this address when sending a letter to someone incarcerated at Piper City Police Jail:

Piper City Police Jail
133 East Peoria Street
Piper City, IL 60959

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Piper City Police Jail
133 East Peoria Street
Piper City, IL 60959

The Piper City Police Jail mail policy changes often, so it would be best to review the site when you send a letter to an inmate there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Piper City 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 Piper City 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry online or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Ford County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is 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 containing a court docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These databases are connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to the Ford County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail at the Piper City Police Jail can change at any time, so review the Piper City Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Piper City 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 Piper City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 815-686-2462 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 inmateâ€™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 Piper City Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably want to use 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Piper City Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are usually more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 815-686-2462

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 the prices. The profits 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 Piper City 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we won’t 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 so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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