Colfax Police Jail

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The Colfax Police Jail is located at 307 North Harrison Street in Colfax, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Colfax Police Department.

This guide tells you all the information about everything a person needs to know about the Colfax Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Colfax Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and also any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Colfax Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Colfax Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of people who are in jail, including status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information for anyone booked or released in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information faster if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Colfax Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Colfax Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

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

First you will have to answer a number of questions, like your full name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact, and 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 be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you think you will get released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you have a cash bond or if a judge must figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, 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 be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Colfax Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name to the Colfax Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go in the log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Colfax Police Jail are always changing, so you should call the jail at 309-723-6241 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Colfax Police Jail you must first be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Colfax Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Colfax Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Colfax 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 Colfax 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 Colfax 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the Mclean County jail website or you can call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask them. You should be clear that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket and all documents and filings filed in your case. You are able to access court records on their website, or at the Mclean County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from other states. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Colfax Police Jail inmates is likely to change, so we suggest that you review the Colfax Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Colfax 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 Colfax Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 309-723-6241 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 Colfax Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind 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 a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Colfax Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges may be limited or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 309-723-6241

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Colfax Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different 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 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 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 prisons or jails where 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 jail has set their inmate 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 Colfax Police Jail, click the link below.

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