Taneytown Police Jail

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The Taneytown Police Jail is located at 120 East Baltimore Street in Taneytown, MD and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Taneytown Police Department.

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

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Taneytown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Taneytown Police Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find the same information about anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information more quickly if you’ve got their name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Taneytown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Taneytown Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, 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 what is your legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to use the telephone to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail takes between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a judge has to determine how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, you should expect to get discharged that morning.

Taneytown Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list each visitor’s name to the Taneytown Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be put into a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. Every visitor is required to provide proof of identification. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Taneytown Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so you should call the jail at 410-751-1150 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Taneytown Police Jail you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make 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.

No mobile phones are allowed at Taneytown Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 magazines to an inmate at the Taneytown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Taneytown 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 Taneytown 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 Taneytown 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 access court records on the website or you are able to call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Carroll County jail, either by phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file containing a docket and all documents filed in the court case. You can access the court records online, or at the Carroll County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to the Carroll County Courthouse and check in person, or you can 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 intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug offenses, 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 Taneytown Police Jail inmates are always changing, so we suggest that you review the Taneytown Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Taneytown 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 Taneytown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 410-751-1150 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 Taneytown Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Taneytown Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are much more costly than regular phone calls. 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 you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 410-751-1150

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Taneytown Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t 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 jail or prison 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 Taneytown Police Jail, click the link below.

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