Edwardsville Police Jail

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The Edwardsville Police Jail is located at 400 North Main Street in Edwardsville, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Edwardsville Police Department.

This guide tells you info about anything a person needs to know about the Edwardsville Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer info that you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have a question, just ask them, and please leave any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Edwardsville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Edwardsville Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to get the same information on anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find their inmate information faster if you’ve got their name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Edwardsville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Edwardsville Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

First, you have to answer a number of questions, like your full name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will be allowed to make a phone call in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. Also, how fast you get released will depend on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, plan to get released in the morning.

Edwardsville Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must list each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Edwardsville Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a log of visitors as an Authorized visit. All visitors must provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Edwardsville Police Jail can change, so make sure that you call the facility at 618-656-2131 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Edwardsville Police Jail you must first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Edwardsville Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Edwardsville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Edwardsville 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 Edwardsville 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 Edwardsville 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 check the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Madison County jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a docket and all documents and filings filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Edwardsville Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so we suggest that you check the Edwardsville Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Edwardsville 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 Edwardsville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 618-656-2131 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 Edwardsville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products including 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 Edwardsville Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are usually more expensive than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on 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 break the rules, phone calls may be limited or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 618-656-2131

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of 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 Edwardsville 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 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 money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail 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 Edwardsville Police Jail, click the link below.

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