St Ansgar Police Jail

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The St Ansgar Police Jail is located at 111 South Mitchell Street in St Ansgar, IA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Saint Ansgar City Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything you might need to know about the St Ansgar Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the St Ansgar Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any feedback or comments that might help other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

St Ansgar Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The St Ansgar Police Jail Inmate Roster is a roster of individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find info about anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information quicker if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

St Ansgar Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the St Ansgar Police Jail includes each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First you will have to answer a number of questions, such as what is your full name, street address, date of birth and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process can take between 10 minutes to many hours. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. Also, it might depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a release date, you should expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

St Ansgar Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the St Ansgar Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be entered into the log for the inmate. Each visitor has to provide proof of identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures change often, so make sure that you call the jail at 641-713-4921 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the St Ansgar Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s visitation list.

Make 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 without it.

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

If a 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 the 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 St Ansgar Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the St Ansgar 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 St Ansgar 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 St Ansgar 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can find out by checking the court records on the website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person 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 have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Mitchell County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that contains a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access court records online, or at the Mitchell County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to the Mitchell County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates at the St Ansgar Police Jail might change, so it would be best to review the St Ansgar Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at St Ansgar 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 St Ansgar Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 641-713-4921 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 St Ansgar Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely 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 items that inmates 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 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 St Ansgar Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are usually more costly than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone calls could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 641-713-4921

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make 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 St Ansgar Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local jails finding out 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 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 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 these cases, the jail has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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