Kingston Police Jail

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The Kingston Police Jail is located at 500 Wyoming Avenue in Kingston, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Kingston Borough Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Kingston Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Kingston Police Jail, 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

This guide is meant to offer advice and information you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, just ask them, and any comments or tips that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Kingston Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Kingston Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including status, and visiting schedule. You can get info about anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Kingston Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Kingston Police Jail includes these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as your legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will allow you to use the phone in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get out of jail. Also, it might depend on if you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge has to decide on 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 get to the end of your sentence and have a discharge date, plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Kingston Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Kingston Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in a log of visitors for the inmate. Every visitor will have to provide identification. Visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Kingston Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so it would be wise to call the official Kingston Police Jail at 570-288-3674 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Kingston Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Kingston Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not going to be 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 Kingston Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Kingston 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 Kingston 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 Kingston 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

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

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a court case file that includes a court docket and any filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These online databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Luzerne County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Kingston Police Jail inmates change frequently, so we suggest that you check the Kingston Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Kingston 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 Kingston Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 570-288-3674 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 Kingston Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Kingston Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are usually more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Kingston Police Jail phone number is: 570-288-3674

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all 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 Kingston 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 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 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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