Plainville Police Jail

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The Plainville Police Jail is located at 157 South Street in Plainville, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Plainville Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Plainville Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Plainville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation is welcome.

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Who’s In Jail

The Plainville Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find info about anybody booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Plainville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Plainville Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer some simple questions, like what is your full name, your address, date of birth and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

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

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process takes anywhere between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate must decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the date of your release, you should plan to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Plainville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Plainville Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be entered in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor must provide identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 508-699-1212 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Plainville Police Jail you have to be on the inmate’s 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.

No mobile phones at Plainville Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 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 Plainville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Plainville 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 Plainville 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 Plainville 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 can check arrest warrants on the website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Norfolk County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in the case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Norfolk County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal background. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to the Norfolk County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might 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 crimes, which include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates at the Plainville Police Jail are always changing, so we suggest that you review the Plainville Police Jail website before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Plainville 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 Plainville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 508-699-1212 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 Plainville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Plainville Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 508-699-1212

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 get to set the prices. The profits off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Plainville Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money 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 therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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