Chesterfield County Detention Center

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The Chesterfield County Detention Center is located at 319 Goodale Road in Chesterfield, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you information about anything you might need to know about the Chesterfield County Detention Center, like how to find an inmate at the Chesterfield County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find Chesterfield County court records, and more.

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you all the information and tips that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have questions, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation would be welcome.

Chesterfield County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Chesterfield County Detention Center Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who were arrested and are now in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get information for anybody arrested and processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get their arrest information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Chesterfield County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer some questions, such as what is your full name, address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the telephone so you can get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. Getting discharged can take between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. It also might depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to determine the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should expect to be released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Chesterfield County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate have to give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Chesterfield County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Every visitor will be required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors arriving late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so call the official Chesterfield County Detention Center at (843) 623-2261 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Chesterfield County Detention Center you must have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Be 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 are allowed at Chesterfield County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Chesterfield County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield 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 find out by checking the court records on the website or you can call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are 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 contains a docket and any of the documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access the court records online, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from any other state. Go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any of the following crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to inmates at the Chesterfield County Detention Center might change, so you should check the Chesterfield County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (843) 623-2261 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 Chesterfield County Detention Center store. An inmate can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably 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 an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Chesterfield County Detention Center are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are much more costly than regular phone calls. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Chesterfield County Detention Center phone number is: (843) 623-2261

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all 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 Chesterfield County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers 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 state prisons and local jails learning 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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