Cedar Grove Police Jail

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The Cedar Grove Police Jail is located at 525 Pompton Avenue in Cedar Grove, NJ and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Cedar Grove Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything a person needs to know about the Cedar Grove Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Cedar Grove Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Essex County court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips that you’ll need to make helping someone get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and any feedback or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Cedar Grove Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Cedar Grove Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals who are in jail, including status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also find information on anybody processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their inmate information fast if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Cedar Grove Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Cedar Grove Police Jail includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you have to answer some questions, such as your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will get to use the phone in order to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will be released. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Cedar Grove Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Cedar Grove Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will go into the visitation log for the inmate. Each visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Anyone showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Cedar Grove Police Jail are always changing, so call the jail at 973-239-4100 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Cedar Grove Police Jail you have to first be on this person’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.

No mobile phones at Cedar Grove Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Cedar Grove Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Cedar Grove 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 Cedar Grove 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 Cedar Grove 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 can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the website or call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail 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, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that includes a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access court records on the website, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Essex County Courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to someone in jail at the Cedar Grove Police Jail might change, so be sure to visit the Cedar Grove Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Cedar Grove 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 Cedar Grove Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 973-239-4100 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 Cedar Grove Police Jail store. You can purchase several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Cedar Grove Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are much more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules and are disciplined, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 973-239-4100

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make from all of the phone calls that inmates make are split 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 Cedar Grove Police Jail. The rates 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 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t 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 facility 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 Cedar Grove Police Jail, click the link below.

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