Hensonville Police Jail

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The Hensonville Police Jail is located at 371 State Route 296 in Hensonville, NY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Town Of Windham Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Hensonville Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Hensonville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hensonville Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. You can get information for anyone booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information faster if you enter their full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Hensonville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Hensonville Police Jail takes you through these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First you must answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to make a phone call so you can call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate must figure out the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Hensonville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to list each visitor’s full name to the Hensonville Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be entered into a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

The Hensonville Police Jail visitation procedures change often, so we suggest that you call the official Hensonville Police Jail at 518-734-3030 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Hensonville Police Jail you must first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Hensonville Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 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 Hensonville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hensonville 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 Hensonville 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 Hensonville 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Greene County jail website or you can call the court directly. 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. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and all of the documents filed in your court case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Greene County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Hensonville Police Jail jail inmates might change, so be sure to check the Hensonville Police Jail site when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hensonville 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 Hensonville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 518-734-3030 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 Hensonville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, 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 enough money 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

All phone calls from the Hensonville Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or totally denied.

The Hensonville Police Jail phone number is: 518-734-3030

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the 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 Hensonville 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 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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. In some cases, 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 phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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