Ashfield Police Jail

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The Ashfield Police Jail is located at 412 Main Street in Ashfield, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Ashfield Police Department.

This site tells you info about everything you might need to know about the Ashfield Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Ashfield Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Franklin County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and advice you need to make going to jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to others would be appreciated.

Ashfield Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ashfield Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals currently in custody, which includes current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get information on anybody arrested and booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their arrest information faster if you have their first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Ashfield Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Ashfield Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you must answer some simple questions, such as what is your full name, your address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will be allowed to use the telephone so you can contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. So, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Ashfield Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must list information about each visitor to the Ashfield Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be put into a Visiting log as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the facility at 413-628-4445 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Ashfield Police Jail you have to be added to their visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones at Ashfield Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Ashfield Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ashfield 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 Ashfield 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 Ashfield 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Franklin County jail website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Franklin County jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at the Franklin County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to people in jail change frequently, so it would be best to check the Ashfield Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ashfield 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 Ashfield Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 413-628-4445 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 Ashfield Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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

The only phone calls that Ashfield Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are much pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, 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, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 413-628-4445

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 how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits 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 Ashfield Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 can be 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails 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 cases like this, the facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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