Southfield Police Jail

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The Southfield Police Jail is located at 207 Norfolk Road in Southfield, MA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the New Marlborough Police Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Southfield Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Southfield Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and advice that you’ll need to make the process easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others would be appreciated.

Southfield Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Southfield Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can get info about anyone processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information more quickly if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Southfield Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Southfield Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, street address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you make a phone call to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might get to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. This process can take between 30 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you can post bail, the quicker you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a release date, you should plan to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Southfield Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Southfield Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered into the log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Southfield Police Jail can change, so call the jail at 413-229-8393 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Southfield Police Jail you must have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Southfield Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 under the age of 18 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Southfield Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Southfield 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 Southfield 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 Southfield 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check court records on the Berkshire County jail website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Berkshire County jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records online, or at the Berkshire 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 state databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from any other state. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail are always changing, so it would be best to visit the Southfield Police Jail website before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Southfield 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 Southfield Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 413-229-8393 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 Southfield Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products including 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Southfield Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are much more expensive than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted 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 every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or forbidden.

The Southfield Police Jail phone number is: 413-229-8393

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Southfield Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 state prisons and local jails finding out how to lower 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 calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, 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 Southfield Police Jail, click the link below.

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