Vinita Park Police Jail

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The Vinita Park Police Jail is located at 8374 Midland Boulevard in Vinita Park, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Vinita Park Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything you might want to know about the Vinita Park Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Vinita Park Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Vinita Park Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and visiting hours. You can also find information about anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information faster if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Vinita Park Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Vinita Park Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer some questions, like your legal name, street address, birthdate and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will get to use the telephone to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged from jail will take from 30 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you have a cash bond amount or if the magistrate must determine the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, plan to be discharged that morning.

Vinita Park Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Vinita Park Police Jail before you can visit. This information will be put into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide identification. Anyone arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Vinita Park Police Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at 314-428-7373 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Vinita Park Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Vinita Park Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 a 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Vinita Park Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Vinita Park 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 Vinita Park 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 Vinita Park 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 arrest warrants on the St Louis County jail website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. 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 name, and their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that contains a court docket and any documents filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Vinita Park Police Jail jail inmates might change, so be sure to check the Vinita Park Police Jail website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Vinita Park 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 Vinita Park Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 314-428-7373 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 Vinita Park Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to use 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 sufficient funds in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Vinita Park Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Vinita Park Police Jail phone number is: 314-428-7373

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Vinita Park Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail 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 Vinita Park Police Jail, click the link below.

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