Mount Carroll Police Jail

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The Mount Carroll Police Jail is located at 302 North Main Street in Mount Carroll, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mount Carroll Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything related to the Mount Carroll Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Mount Carroll Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and tips that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that would help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Mount Carroll Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mount Carroll Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of people who have been arrested, including custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information for anyone who has been arrested or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to locate the information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Mount Carroll Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Mount Carroll Police Jail includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

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

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

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process takes from 10 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get let go. It also might depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a discharge date, you should plan to get released that morning.

Mount Carroll Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Mount Carroll Police Jail in advance of the visit. This information will be put in a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

The Mount Carroll Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so it would be wise to call the jail at 815-244-5313 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Mount Carroll Police Jail you have to be on their visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Mount Carroll Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not going to be 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 Mount Carroll Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mount Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access court records on the Carroll County jail website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for crimes, which include, drug crimes like possession or 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 funds to someone in jail might change, so be sure to visit the Mount Carroll Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mount Carroll 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 Carroll Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 815-244-5313 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 Carroll Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Mount Carroll Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 815-244-5313

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make off of 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 Mount Carroll Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices 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 decrease 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 how much it costs you to call 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 these cases, the jail or prison 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 Mount Carroll Police Jail, click the link below.

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