Green Brook Police Jail

---

The Green Brook Police Jail is located at 109 Greenbrook Road in Green Brook, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Green Brook Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything related to the Green Brook Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

Top 10 Searches for Green Brook Police Jail

1. Green Brook Police Jail Information
2. Green Brook Police Jail Inmate Search
3. Somerset County Inmate Search in Green Brook, NJ
4. Green Brook Police Jail Visitation Rules
5. What Are the Visitation Hours for Green Brook Police Jail
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Green Brook Police Jail
7. Green Brook Police Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Green Brook Police Jail
10. How to Search Somerset County Arrest Records

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information that you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that could help others is welcome.

Green Brook Police Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Green Brook Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get info about anyone processed or released within the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Green Brook Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Green Brook Police Jail includes the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You will answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, home address, birth date and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged will take from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you can get released from jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge has to decide on how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Green Brook Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to list each visitor’s name to the Green Brook Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitors will be entered in the log as an authorized visitor. All visitors will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Green Brook Police Jail change often, so call the jail at 732-968-1188 before you visit an inmate.

---

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Green Brook Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Green Brook Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If the 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to 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 Green Brook Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Green Brook 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.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Green Brook 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 Green Brook 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 an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants on the Somerset County court website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access your court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of a person’s criminal history. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from any other state. Go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DUI, 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 Green Brook Police Jail jail inmates change frequently, so you should review the Green Brook Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Green Brook 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 Green Brook Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 732-968-1188 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 Green Brook Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, 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 enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products such as 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 Green Brook Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, phone calls may be limited or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 732-968-1188

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts 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 phone calls that inmates make 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 Green Brook Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to decrease 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances 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 or prison has set their calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

Return To Main Menu

9915