Aiken County Detention Center

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The Aiken County Detention Center is located at 435 Wire Road in Aiken, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Aiken County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything a person needs to know about the Aiken County Detention Center, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information and advice you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Aiken County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Aiken County Detention Center Inmate List has information about individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and times you can visit. You can find information on anybody arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can find the information faster if you enter their full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Aiken County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Aiken County Detention Center takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, your address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you make a phone call in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. This process will take anywhere from 15 minutes to all day. So, the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you’ve got a cash bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on how much your bail will be. For minor offenses, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Aiken County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate must provide information about each visitor to the Aiken County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will go in a Visiting log for the inmate. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so make sure that you call the official Aiken County Detention Center at (803) 642-2040 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Aiken County Detention Center you have to first have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Aiken County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Aiken County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Aiken County Detention Center 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 Aiken County Detention Center. 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 Aiken County Detention Center 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 for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants on the Aiken County jail website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Keep in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Aiken County jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a completely 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 report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail at the Aiken County Detention Center might change, so it would be best to visit the Aiken County Detention Center website before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Aiken County Detention Center

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 Aiken County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (803) 642-2040 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 Aiken County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Aiken County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are much more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates 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 might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Aiken County Detention Center phone number is: (803) 642-2040

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make 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 Aiken County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 lower 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 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 Aiken County Detention Center, click the link below.

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