Avon Police Jail

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The Avon Police Jail is located at 36145 Detroit Road in Avon, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Avon Police Department.

This page tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Avon Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find Lorain County court records, and much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information that you’ll need to make going to jail less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and any tips or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Avon Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Avon Police Jail Inmate List is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find the same information for anyone booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to get the information more quickly if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Avon Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Avon Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First you will answer some questions, like your full legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological 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 away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might 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 wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes from 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Avon Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Avon Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put in a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. All visitors will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 440-934-1234 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Avon Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

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

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 Avon Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Avon 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 Avon 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 Avon 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 find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry online or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, 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, by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail at the Avon Police Jail could change, so it would be best to visit the Avon Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Avon 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 Avon Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 440-934-1234 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 Avon Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use 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 commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Avon Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely.

The Avon Police Jail phone number is: 440-934-1234

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 Avon Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances 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 calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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