Edgartown Police Jail

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The Edgartown Police Jail is located at 72 Peases Point Way South in Edgartown, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Edgartown Police Department.

This page tells you info about everything related to the Edgartown Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Dukes County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to others is welcome.

Edgartown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Edgartown Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find information about anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get the information faster if you enter their full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Edgartown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Edgartown Police Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First you must answer some simple questions, like your legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to wear your street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process can take between 15 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve got a cash bond or if a magistrate must figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Edgartown Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s name to the Edgartown Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Edgartown Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 508-627-4343 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Edgartown Police Jail you must be on their visitation list.

Be 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 cellphones are allowed at Edgartown Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can 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 Edgartown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Edgartown 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 Edgartown 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 Edgartown 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 arrest warrants online or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Dukes County jail, either by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail are always changing, so check the Edgartown Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Edgartown 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 Edgartown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 508-627-4343 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 Edgartown Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Edgartown Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to 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, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

The Edgartown Police Jail phone number is: 508-627-4343

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 how much it costs to make phone calls. The money 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 Edgartown Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not 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 facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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