Beaufort County Detention Center

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The Beaufort County Detention Center is located at 106 Ribaut Road in Beaufort, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Beaufort County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you need to make helping someone get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any comments or tips that would be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Beaufort County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Beaufort County Detention Center Inmate Search is a list of individuals who are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting schedule. You can also get information for anyone processed or discharged within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get the information more quickly if you’ve got their name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Beaufort County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Beaufort County Detention Center takes you through the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a number of questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone 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 wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on if you’ve got a cash bond or if a magistrate needs to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Beaufort County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give information about each visitor to the Beaufort County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be entered into a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at (843) 470-5711 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Beaufort County Detention Center you must first be added to their visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Beaufort County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. 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 going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 is related to 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Beaufort County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Beaufort 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 Beaufort 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 Beaufort 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check the arrest warrants online or call the court. 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, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and all documents filed in your court case. You can access court records on their website, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Beaufort County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Beaufort County Detention Center inmates is likely to change, so review the Beaufort County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Beaufort 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 Beaufort County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (843) 470-5711 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 Beaufort County Detention Center store. You can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products such as 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

The only phone calls that Beaufort County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are usually more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Beaufort County Detention Center phone number is: (843) 470-5711

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make from 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 Beaufort County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 learning how to lower 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. 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 can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Beaufort County Detention Center, click the link below.

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