Tukwila Police Jail

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The Tukwila Police Jail is located at 6200 Southcenter Boulevard in Tukwila, WA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Tukwila Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Tukwila Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Tukwila Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information that you need to make getting locked up less stressfull. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that could be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Tukwila Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Tukwila Police Jail Inmate List is a roster of people who have been arrested, including custody status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to get information about anybody booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can get their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Tukwila Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Tukwila Police Jail takes you through these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer some basic questions, such as what is your full legal name, street 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 ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on your bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the discharge date, you should plan to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Tukwila Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Tukwila Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a log of approved visitors as an approved visitor. Each visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures change often, so we suggest that you call the official Tukwila Police Jail at 206-433-1808 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Tukwila Police Jail you must first be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Tukwila Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally 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, 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Tukwila Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Tukwila 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 Tukwila 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 Tukwila 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, you can check the arrest warrants on the King County court website 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. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the King County jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a court case file that includes a court docket and all filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the King County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates can change at any time, so you should visit the Tukwila Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Tukwila 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 Tukwila Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 206-433-1808 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 Tukwila Police Jail store. You can purchase several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember 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 inmates can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Tukwila Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are typically more costly than phone calls made at home. 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 you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Tukwila Police Jail phone number is: 206-433-1808

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. 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 Tukwila Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 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 jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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