Cleveland County Detention Center

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The Cleveland County Detention Center is located at 100 Justice Place in Shelby, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department.

This page tells you info about anything related to the Cleveland County Detention Center, like how to locate an inmate at the Cleveland County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and advice you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to others would be much appreciated.

Cleveland County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Cleveland County Detention Center Inmate Roster is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can also get the same information for anyone arrested and processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You’ll be able to locate the information faster if you have the arrestee’s full name, birth date, or arrest number.

Cleveland County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Cleveland County Detention Center takes you through each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer some questions, such as your legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a phone call in order to contact 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, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail may take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. Also, it can depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate still needs to decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a discharge date, expect to get released anywhere between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

Cleveland County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list each visitor’s name to the Cleveland County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the official Cleveland County Detention Center at (704) 484-4889 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Cleveland County Detention Center you have to be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Cleveland County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a 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 under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Cleveland County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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 court records on the Cleveland County jail website or you are able to call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. You should be clear 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 the person’s name, and their arrest date, contact the Cleveland County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a court case file containing a docket sheet and all documents filed in your court case. You can access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal past. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates are always changing, so it would be best to double check the Cleveland County Detention Center site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Cleveland 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 Cleveland County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (704) 484-4889 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 Cleveland County Detention Center store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment 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

The only phone calls that Cleveland County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are generally more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear 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 privileges might get reduced or forbidden.

The Cleveland County Detention Center phone number is: (704) 484-4889

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits 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 Cleveland County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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