Mount Pulaski Police Jail

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The Mount Pulaski Police Jail is located at 111 South Lafayette Street in Mount Pulaski, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mount Pulaski Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Mount Pulaski Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Mount Pulaski Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mount Pulaski Police Jail Inmate Search is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can get the same information about anybody booked or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can locate their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got their full name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Mount Pulaski Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Mount Pulaski Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some basic questions, such as what is your legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail will take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the faster you can post bail, the faster you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on if you have a bond amount or if the judge still needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a release date, expect to get released in the morning.

Mount Pulaski Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Mount Pulaski Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so call the jail at 217-792-5018 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Mount Pulaski Police Jail you must be added to the inmate’s 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.

No cellphones at Mount Pulaski Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Mount Pulaski Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mount Pulaski 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 Mount Pulaski 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 Mount Pulaski 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, you can check arrest warrants online or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should be clear 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 first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Logan County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. An arrest is in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and all documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records online, or at the Logan County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive 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 crimes, which include, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Mount Pulaski Police Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to visit the Mount Pulaski Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mount Pulaski 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 Mount Pulaski Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 217-792-5018 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 Mount Pulaski Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, 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 account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Mount Pulaski Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden.

The Mount Pulaski Police Jail phone number is: 217-792-5018

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 get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all 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 Mount Pulaski Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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 calling 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 in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the facility has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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