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Santa Cruz Police Jail Information

Address

Santa Cruz Police Jail
155 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-4913

Phone Number

Phone: 831-420-5800

The Santa Cruz Police Jail is located at 155 Center Street in Santa Cruz, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Santa Cruz Police Department.

This page tells you information about anything related to the Santa Cruz Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Santa Cruz Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Santa Cruz County court records, and more.

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info that you’ll need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Santa Cruz Police Jail Inmate Search

Do you have a family member, loved one, or friend that has gone to jail and need to contact them? Do you know someone who has been arrested and you want to find out what jail they’re in?

In order to see who’s in jail at the Santa Cruz Police Jail you will have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Santa Cruz Police Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who have been arrested, including status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get information about anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Santa Cruz Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Santa Cruz Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer some basic questions, such as your full name, home 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 ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will be allowed to use the telephone to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere from 30 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get discharged from jail. It also depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond or if a magistrate needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a discharge date, you should expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Santa Cruz Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Santa Cruz Police Jail before you can visit. This information will be put in a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Every visitor must provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies can change, so make sure that you call the official Santa Cruz Police Jail at 831-420-5800 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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

Before you can visit an inmate at the Santa Cruz Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Santa Cruz Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Santa Cruz Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Santa Cruz 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

If you would like to send a letter to an inmate at Santa Cruz Police Jail, use this address:

Santa Cruz Police Jail
155 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-4913

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Santa Cruz Police Jail
155 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-4913

The Santa Cruz Police Jail inmate mail policy changes often, so visit the site before 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 Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants on the website or you are able to 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 you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Santa Cruz County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file containing a docket sheet and any documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records online, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail can change at any time, so you should review the Santa Cruz Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 831-420-5800 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 Santa Cruz Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, 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 items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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 Santa Cruz Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Santa Cruz Police Jail phone number is: 831-420-5800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Santa Cruz Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 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. 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 facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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