Bonne Terre Police Jail

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The Bonne Terre Police Jail is located at 118 North Allen Street in Bonne Terre, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Bonne Terre Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might want to know about the Bonne Terre Police Jail, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you info that you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it, and also any comments or tips that could be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Bonne Terre Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Bonne Terre Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find info for anyone arrested and processed or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their inmate information faster if you have your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Bonne Terre Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Bonne Terre Police Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

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

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

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail can take from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. Also, it will depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge must decide on the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and know the release date, expect to get discharged anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Bonne Terre Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must provide each visitor’s name to the Bonne Terre Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will go in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. All visitors will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will be turned away.

Visitation procedures at Bonne Terre Police Jail change often, so it would be wise to call the official Bonne Terre Police Jail at 573-431-3131 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Bonne Terre Police Jail you must be on the inmate’s approved 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 phones are allowed at Bonne Terre Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 under the age of 18 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Bonne Terre Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Bonne Terre 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 Bonne Terre 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 Bonne Terre 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 for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the St Francois County jail, either by phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are public record and this information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. They include a case file that contains a court docket and all filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the 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 background. These databases are linked together and you can track criminal histories from another state. Go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to Bonne Terre Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so check the Bonne Terre Police Jail website when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Bonne Terre 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 Bonne Terre Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 573-431-3131 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 Bonne Terre Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably need 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 purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Bonne Terre Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are typically more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates 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 rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 573-431-3131

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. 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 Bonne Terre Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 calling your inmate. 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 cases like this, the jail or prison has set their inmate 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 Bonne Terre Police Jail, click the link below.

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