Ashland Police Jail

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The Ashland Police Jail is located at 20 Highland Street in Ashland, NH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Ashland Police Department.

This page tells you info about everything one might want to know about the Ashland Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Ashland 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 give you advice and information that you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Ashland Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ashland Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting hours. You can also get the same information for anybody booked or released within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information fast if you enter the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Ashland Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Ashland Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will answer some basic questions, like your full name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to 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 your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process takes between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will get out of jail. It also depends on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the release date, you should plan to get discharged in the morning.

Ashland Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list each visitor’s name to the Ashland Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put into a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the jail at 603-968-7598 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Ashland Police Jail you have to be on their visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Ashland Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 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, 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 Ashland Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ashland 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 Ashland 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 Ashland 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, you can access arrest warrants on the Grafton County jail website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail at the Ashland Police Jail are always changing, so check the Ashland Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ashland 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 Ashland Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 603-968-7598 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 Ashland Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Ashland Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about 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 are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

The Ashland Police Jail phone number is: 603-968-7598

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Ashland 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 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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