Jailhouse Booking
Learn about the booking process after an arrest.
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The booking process involves taking information and personal effects from arrestees; it includes fingerprints, mug shots, and a search of the person.
What Happens During Booking
Booking officers have the right to question and search people headed for the jail.
Here are the steps involved in a typical booking session.
Are suspects entitled to have a lawyer present during booking?
Sometimes a bail bondsman is your best bet.
Questions About the Booking Process
Learn about an alternative to being booked, strip searches, and immigration checks.
Police officers have a wide degree of discretion when deciding to cite rather than bring the arrestee to jail.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon tell us whether it's legal to strip search every booked person, regardless of the circumstances of the arrest or the behavior of the individual.
Depending on where the booking takes place, an immigration check could take place.
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