Lakewood Police Jail

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The Lakewood Police Jail is located at 5504 112Th Street Southwest in Lakewood, WA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Lakewood Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything related to the Lakewood Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Lakewood Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and also any comments or tips that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Lakewood Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lakewood Police Jail Inmate List is a roster of individuals who have been arrested, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to find info on anyone booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information fast if you have your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Lakewood Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Lakewood Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

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

First, you will answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, your address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take between 30 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out how much your bail will be. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Lakewood Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s full name to the Lakewood Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be put in the log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor must provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Lakewood Police Jail can change, so we suggest that you call the official Lakewood Police Jail at 253-830-5000 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Lakewood Police Jail you have to have your name on their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Lakewood Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 old and is not related to the inmate, this 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 Lakewood Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 check court records on the Pierce County jail website or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Pierce County jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records online, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Pierce County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates change frequently, so we suggest that you double check the Lakewood Police Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lakewood 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 Lakewood Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 253-830-5000 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 Lakewood Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably 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 an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products including 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 Lakewood Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are a lot 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 should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated completely.

The Lakewood Police Jail phone number is: 253-830-5000

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of all 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 Lakewood Police Jail. The rates 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 state prisons and local jails figuring out how to lower 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 calling 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. In some cases, 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 cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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