Beaver Meadows Police Jail

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The Beaver Meadows Police Jail is located at 100 East Broad Street in Beaver Meadows, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Beaver Meadows Borough Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Beaver Meadows Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer advice and information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that would help others is much appreciated.

Beaver Meadows Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Beaver Meadows Police Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you can get information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get their arrest information faster if you have their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Beaver Meadows Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Beaver Meadows Police Jail includes the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding 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 what is your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a telephone call to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged will take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get released. Also, it depends on if you have a bond amount or if the judge has to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, you should expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Beaver Meadows Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide each visitor’s name to the Beaver Meadows Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide identification. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies can change, so you should call the jail at 570-455-1919 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Beaver Meadows Police Jail you have to first be on their approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Beaver Meadows Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of 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 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 Beaver Meadows Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Beaver Meadows 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 Beaver Meadows 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 Beaver Meadows 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 for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the website or you can call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Carbon County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file containing a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access the court records on the internet, or at the Carbon County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to the Carbon County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail might change, so we suggest that you check the Beaver Meadows Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Beaver Meadows 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 Beaver Meadows Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 570-455-1919 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 Beaver Meadows Police Jail store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like 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 a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Beaver Meadows Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep 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, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden.

The Beaver Meadows Police Jail phone number is: 570-455-1919

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Beaver Meadows Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 finding 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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