Basking Ridge Police Jail

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The Basking Ridge Police Jail is located at 1 Collyer Lane in Basking Ridge, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Bernards Township Police Department.

This page tells you information about everything one might want to know about the Basking Ridge Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Basking Ridge Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to offer advice and information that you’ll need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and also any tips or comments that would be beneficial to others will be much appreciated.

Basking Ridge Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Basking Ridge Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about people who have been arrested, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also get the same information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you have the arrestee’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Basking Ridge Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Basking Ridge Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes anywhere from 15 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. Also, how fast you get released might depend on if you have a cash bond or if the magistrate has to figure out your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Basking Ridge Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Basking Ridge Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be entered into a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will be turned away.

The Basking Ridge Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so you should call the official Basking Ridge Police Jail at 908-766-1122 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Basking Ridge Police Jail you must be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Basking Ridge Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Basking Ridge Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Basking Ridge 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 Basking Ridge 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 Basking Ridge 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 check arrest warrants on the website or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. 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 a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of people’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Somerset County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Basking Ridge Police Jail might change, so be sure to visit the Basking Ridge Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Basking Ridge 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 Basking Ridge Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 908-766-1122 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 Basking Ridge Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely 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 buy if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Basking Ridge Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

The Basking Ridge Police Jail phone number is: 908-766-1122

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, 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 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 Basking Ridge Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to lower 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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