Salamanca Police Jail

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The Salamanca Police Jail is located at 1 Barrett Drive in Salamanca, NY and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Salamanca City Police Department.

This page will tell you all the information about everything you might want to know about the Salamanca Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Salamanca Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Cattaraugus County court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you all the info that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that would be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Salamanca Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Salamanca Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people who have been arrested, including custody status, and visiting schedule. You can get info about anybody booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find their inmate information quicker if you have their first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Salamanca Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Salamanca Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will answer a number of questions, such as your full name, your address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will let you use the telephone in order to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will be freed. How quickly you get discharged can depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if the judge still needs to decide on your bail amount. For minor charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Salamanca Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Salamanca Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitors will be put in the visitors log for the inmate. Every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so you should call the facility at 716-945-2330 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Salamanca Police Jail you must first be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Salamanca Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 a 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Salamanca Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Salamanca 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 Salamanca 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 Salamanca 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the Cattaraugus County court website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Cattaraugus County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Cattaraugus County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

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

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Salamanca Police Jail inmates change frequently, so it would be best to check the Salamanca Police Jail website when you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Salamanca 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 Salamanca Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 716-945-2330 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 Salamanca Police Jail store. You can purchase a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Salamanca Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are usually pricier 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 inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or totally denied.

Phone Number: 716-945-2330

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 of the inmate phone calls 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 Salamanca Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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