Jackson County Jail

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The Jackson County Jail is located at 104 South Niagara Street in Maquoketa, IA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you info about everything one might want to know about the Jackson County Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Jackson County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the advice and information you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Jackson County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Jackson County Jail Inmate Roster is a list of individuals currently in custody, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can find info for anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can find their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Jackson County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Jackson County Jail is made up of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you have to answer some simple questions, like your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

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

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process may take from 10 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge needs to figure out the bail amount. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Jackson County Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Jackson County Jail in advance of the visit. This information will be put into the visitors log for the inmate. Each and every visitor has to provide proof of identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the official Jackson County Jail at (563) 652-3312 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Jackson County Jail you have to first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones are allowed at Jackson County Jail, and you will be searched. 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. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 younger than 18 years of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Jackson County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Jackson County 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 Jackson County 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 Jackson County 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 might have a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry online 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. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that contains a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in your case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Jackson County Jail inmates change frequently, so it would be best to double check the Jackson County Jail site when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Jackson County 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 Jackson County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (563) 652-3312 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 Jackson County Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have enough money 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 Jackson County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about how often you can use the phone, but inmates must 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 cut altogether.

Phone Number: (563) 652-3312

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits 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 Jackson County 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 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 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 calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails 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 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 Jackson County Jail, click the link below.

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