Austintown Police Jail

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The Austintown Police Jail is located at 92 Ohltown Road in Austintown, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Austintown Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Austintown Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and also any tips or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Austintown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Austintown Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of people who are in jail, including custody status, and times you can visit. You can also find information about anyone arrested and processed or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information quicker if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Austintown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Austintown Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some questions, like your full name, home address, date of birth and 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, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

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

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get released from jail. This process can take from 15 minutes to all day. So, the faster you can post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. It also depends on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the release date, expect to get discharged in the morning.

Austintown Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide information about each visitor to the Austintown Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will be put into the visitation log as an approved visitor. Each visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so it would be wise to call the facility at 330-799-9721 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Austintown Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

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

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 of age and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Austintown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Austintown 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 Austintown 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 Austintown 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, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Mahoning County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file containing a court docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records on their website, or at the Mahoning County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to the Mahoning County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail are always changing, so you should double check the Austintown Police Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Austintown 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 Austintown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 330-799-9721 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 Austintown Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, 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 money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Austintown Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually pricier than regular phone calls. 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 break the rules and are disciplined, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: 330-799-9721

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from 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 Austintown Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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