Mason City Police Jail

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The Mason City Police Jail is located at 142 South Main Street in Mason City, IL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Mason City Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything you might want to know about the Mason City Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Mason City Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and much much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and any comments or feedback that could help others would be welcome.

Mason City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Mason City Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of people who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes custody status, and visiting hours. You can get information for anybody who has been arrested or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information faster if you have the arrestee’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Mason City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Mason City Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

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

The first step is that you will have to answer some questions, like what is your legal name, address, birth date and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to make a phone call so you can call a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged will take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it can depend on if you have a bond amount or if the magistrate still needs to figure out how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Mason City Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to give information about each visitor to the Mason City Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be put into the visitors log as an authorized visitor. Each visitor must provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so make sure that you call the official Mason City Police Jail at 217-482-3630 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Mason City Police Jail you have to first be added to their visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No mobile phones are allowed at Mason City Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Persons parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they must 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, 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 Mason City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Mason City 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 Mason City 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 Mason City 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 an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the court records on the Mason County court website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind 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, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a court case file that contains a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at the Mason County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are connected and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates at the Mason City Police Jail can change at any time, so be sure to check the Mason City Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Mason City 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 Mason City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 217-482-3630 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 Mason City Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary daily, 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 items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Mason City Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are generally pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Mason City Police Jail phone number is: 217-482-3630

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Mason City 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 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 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, 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 Mason City Police Jail, click the link below.

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