Waukegan Police Jail

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The Waukegan Police Jail is located at 420 Robert V Sabonjian Place in Waukegan, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Waukegan Police Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Waukegan Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Waukegan Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Lake County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the advice and information you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Waukegan Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Waukegan Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who are in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. You can find info for anyone booked or released in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to find the information more quickly if you’ve got their name, birth date, or arrest number.

Waukegan Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Waukegan Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

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

You will have to answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process takes anywhere from 15 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a cash bond or if a magistrate still needs to decide on your bail amount. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be discharged that morning.

Waukegan Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide information about each visitor to the Waukegan Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be entered in the visitation log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so call the official Waukegan Police Jail at 847-599-2608 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Waukegan Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to take 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 mobile phones at Waukegan Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a 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 must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Waukegan Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Waukegan 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 Waukegan 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 Waukegan 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 for your arrest, you can access court records on the website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Lake County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that includes a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records via the internet, or at the Lake County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to the Lake County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Waukegan Police Jail jail inmates might change, so it would be best to review the Waukegan Police Jail website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Waukegan 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 Waukegan Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 847-599-2608 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 Waukegan Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind 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 the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Waukegan Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 847-599-2608

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. 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 Waukegan Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, 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 jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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