Charleston County Detention Center

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The Charleston County Detention Center is located at 3841 Leeds Avenue in Charleston, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you all the information about anything related to the Charleston County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate at the Charleston County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Charleston County court records, and everything else.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Charleston County Detention Center
7. Charleston County Detention Center Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Charleston County Detention Center
10. How to Search Charleston County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and advice that you need to make the process easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might help other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Charleston County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Charleston County Detention Center Inmate Roster is an online list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find information for anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to find the information faster if you enter their name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Charleston County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Charleston County Detention Center takes you through these steps:

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

First you must answer a number of questions, like your full legal name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are discharged.

They will allow you to use the phone to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere between 15 minutes to all day long. So, the faster bail is posted, the faster you will get out of jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the judge has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a discharge date, expect to get released in the morning.

Charleston County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Charleston County Detention Center before you can visit. This information will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so it would be wise to call the official Charleston County Detention Center at (843) 529-7300 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

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

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

No cellphones are allowed at Charleston County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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, 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 Charleston County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Charleston 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 Charleston 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 Charleston 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can check the arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Charleston County jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file that includes a docket and all documents filed in the court case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These databases are connected so you can track criminal histories from another state. You are able to go to the Charleston County Courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to Charleston County Detention Center jail inmates are always changing, so be sure to visit the Charleston County Detention Center website when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Charleston 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 Charleston County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (843) 529-7300 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 Charleston County Detention Center store. You can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, 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 money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Charleston County Detention Center are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are usually pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls may be limited or forbidden.

The Charleston County Detention Center phone number is: (843) 529-7300

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts 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 of the 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 Charleston County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 finding 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. 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 cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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