Marathon Police Jail

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The Marathon Police Jail is located at 305 Walnut Street in Marathon, WI and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Marathon City Police Department.

This site tells you information about anything related to the Marathon Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Marathon Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information that you need to make the process easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that might help other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Marathon Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Marathon Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes status, and times you can visit. Also, you can get the same information for anybody booked or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their arrest information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Marathon Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Marathon Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some simple questions, such as what is your full legal name, street address, birthdate and 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 get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to use the phone so you can call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process can take from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get released. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, you should plan to be released that morning.

Marathon Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to list the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Marathon Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the visitation log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

The Marathon Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the official Marathon Police Jail at 715-443-2470 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Marathon Police Jail you have to first be on this person’s visitation list.

Be sure to take 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 are allowed at Marathon Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Marathon Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Marathon 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 Marathon 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 Marathon 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the court records on the website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. 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 the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Marathon County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A criminal records search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Marathon Police Jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to visit the Marathon Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Marathon 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 Marathon Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 715-443-2470 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 Marathon 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 use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary 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

All phone calls from the Marathon Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: 715-443-2470

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. 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 Marathon Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 learning how to lower your inmates phone charges is 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, 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 or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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