Stirling Police Jail

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The Stirling Police Jail is located at 264 Mercer Street in Stirling, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Long Hill Township Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything related to the Stirling Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or tips that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Stirling Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Stirling Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, including custody status, and times you can visit. You can get information about anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Stirling Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

The first step is that you have to answer some questions, such as what is your full legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to use the phone so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released depends on if you have a cash bond amount or if the judge 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 release date, plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Stirling Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Stirling Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be entered into a log of visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone arriving late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

The Stirling Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Stirling Police Jail at 908-647-1800 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Stirling Police Jail you have to first be added to their approved visitation list.

Make 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.

No cellphones at Stirling Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Stirling Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Stirling 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 Stirling 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 Stirling 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 inquiry on the website or call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear 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, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Morris County jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a court docket and any filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on the website, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of people’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, 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 rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Stirling Police Jail are always changing, so you should review the Stirling Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Stirling 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 Stirling Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 908-647-1800 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 Stirling Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to use 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 purchase if they have sufficient funds in their 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Stirling Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep 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 ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Stirling Police Jail phone number is: 908-647-1800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Stirling Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 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 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we will not 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 will be able to save you money.

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

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