Greene Police Jail

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The Greene Police Jail is located at 29 North Chenango Street in Greene, NY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Village Of Greene Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Greene Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Greene Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you advice and information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any tips or comments that might be beneficial to others will be appreciated.

Greene Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Greene Police Jail Inmate Lookup has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times you can visit. Also, you are able to find info about anyone arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get their inmate information faster if you enter the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Greene Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Greene Police Jail is made up of each of these 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 thing you will have to to is you must answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical 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 get released.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you have a cash bond or if the judge needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a release date, expect to be discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Greene Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide each visitor’s full name to the Greene Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will be put in the visitation log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Greene Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the facility at 607-656-8501 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Greene Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones are allowed at Greene Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Greene Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants on the Chenango County jail website or call the court. This requires a 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 the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at the Chenango County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of people’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Greene Police Jail inmates are always changing, so review the Greene Police Jail website before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Greene 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 Greene Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 607-656-8501 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 Greene Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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

The only phone calls that Greene Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are a lot pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone may be limited or forbidden completely.

The Greene Police Jail phone number is: 607-656-8501

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Greene Police Jail. The prices 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 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 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 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 facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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