Union County Corrections

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The Union County Corrections is located at 15 Elizabethtown Plaza in Elizabeth, NJ and is a medium security county jail operated by the Union County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything you might need to know about the Union County Corrections, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and everything else.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Union County Corrections
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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Union County Corrections
10. How to Search Union County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that could help other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Union County Corrections Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Union County Corrections Inmate Roster is a roster of people who have been arrested, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get info for anybody processed or released within the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can get their inmate information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Union County Corrections Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Union County Corrections takes you through these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer some questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to use the phone to contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your street clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes from 15 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, it depends on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge needs to decide on your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, expect to be released in the morning.

Union County Corrections Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Union County Corrections in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into the log for the requesting inmate. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies can change, so you should call the facility at (908) 558-2610 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Union County Corrections you must first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Union County Corrections, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Union County Corrections. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Union County Corrections 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 Union County Corrections. 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 Union County Corrections 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Union County jail website or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know 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, as well as their arrest date, contact the Union County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a docket and all of the documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Union County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates could change, so be sure to review the Union County Corrections website before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Union County Corrections

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 Union County Corrections uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (908) 558-2610 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 Union County Corrections store. You can purchase a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Union County Corrections inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically more expensive than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or forbidden completely.

The Union County Corrections phone number is: (908) 558-2610

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of 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 Union County Corrections. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 a lot of money 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 in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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