Monroe County Jail

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The Monroe County Jail is located at 4250 Manor Drive in Stroudsburg, PA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide tells you information about everything a person needs to know about the Monroe County Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the advice and information you need to make the process easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Monroe County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Monroe County Jail Inmate List is a list of individuals who have been arrested, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find information on anybody processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their inmate information faster if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Monroe County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Monroe County Jail includes these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

You will have to answer some basic questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you make a phone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing your own 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 pay your bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail can take from 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge must determine the amount of bail to be set. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should plan to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Monroe County Jail Visitation

Inmates need to give each visitor’s full name to the Monroe County Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be put in the log for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

The Monroe County Jail visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the facility at (570) 992-3232 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Monroe County Jail you have to first be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Monroe County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation 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 a family member of 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Monroe County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Monroe 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Monroe County jail website or call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear 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 name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Monroe County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file that contains a docket and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet, or at the Monroe County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Monroe County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Monroe County Jail inmates can change at any time, so be sure to check the Monroe County Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Monroe 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 Monroe County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (570) 992-3232 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 Monroe County Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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 Monroe County Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much pricier than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on 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 there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Monroe County Jail phone number is: (570) 992-3232

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from all of the inmate phone calls 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 Monroe County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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