Hooversville Police Jail

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The Hooversville Police Jail is located at 50 Main Street in Hooversville, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Hooversville Borough Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Hooversville Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Hooversville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and advice you need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Hooversville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hooversville Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find info on anybody arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Hooversville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Hooversville Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the phone in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process takes between 15 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. It also might depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge has to decide on your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Hooversville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Hooversville Police Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be entered in the visitors log as an approved visitor. All visitors will have to provide proof of identification. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

The Hooversville Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Hooversville Police Jail at 814-798-8001 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Hooversville Police Jail you have to first have your name on their approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Hooversville Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If the 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Hooversville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hooversville 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 Hooversville 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 Hooversville 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Somerset County court website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the Somerset County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to the Somerset County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, 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 will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Hooversville Police Jail could change, so we suggest that you check the Hooversville Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hooversville 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 Hooversville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 814-798-8001 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 Hooversville Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember 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 items that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Hooversville Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are usually 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 lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Hooversville Police Jail phone number is: 814-798-8001

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 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 Hooversville 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 can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, 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 cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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