Truro Police Jail

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The Truro Police Jail is located at 344 United States Highway 6 in Truro, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Truro Police Department.

This site will tell you info about anything one might want to know about the Truro Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Truro Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the information and advice you need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a question, just ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Truro Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Truro Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who have been arrested, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get information about anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find the information more quickly if you’ve got their full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Truro Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Truro Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

You must answer some questions, such as what is your full name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to use the phone in order to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can post bail, the quicker you will get released. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate has to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged in the morning.

Truro Police Jail Visitation

The inmate must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Truro Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered into a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. Each visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Truro Police Jail frequently change, so make sure that you call the facility at 508-487-8730 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Truro Police Jail you have to be on their visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones are allowed at Truro Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Usually is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Truro Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Truro 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 Truro 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 Truro 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 inquiry on the website or you are able to call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Barnstable County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is in the public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file containing a docket and all of the documents filed in your case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to people in jail is likely to change, so check the Truro Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Truro 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 Truro Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 508-487-8730 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 Truro Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Truro Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are typically more expensive 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 must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Truro Police Jail phone number is: 508-487-8730

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all 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 Truro Police Jail. The prices 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 lower your inmates phone charges is 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t 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 inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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