Littlestown Police Jail

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The Littlestown Police Jail is located at 10 South Queen Street in Littlestown, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Littlestown Borough Police Department.

This site will tell you info about everything you might want to know about the Littlestown Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might help others is welcome.

Littlestown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Littlestown Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get info for anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Littlestown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Littlestown Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

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

The first step is that you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process will take between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will be freed. Also, it might depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, expect to be released in the morning.

Littlestown Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s full name to the Littlestown Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so call the facility at 717-359-4511 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Littlestown Police Jail you must have your name on this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Littlestown Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If the 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 a 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 Littlestown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Littlestown 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 Littlestown 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 Littlestown 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 find out by checking the arrest warrants online or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to the Adams County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Littlestown Police Jail jail inmates might change, so we suggest that you review the Littlestown Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Littlestown 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 Littlestown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 717-359-4511 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 Littlestown Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need 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 commissary 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 Littlestown Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or totally denied.

The Littlestown Police Jail phone number is: 717-359-4511

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every 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 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 Littlestown Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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