Cumberland County Jail

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The Cumberland County Jail is located at 204 Gillespie Street in Fayetteville, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you info about anything one might want to know about the Cumberland County Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Cumberland County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give advice and information that you’ll need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and any comments or feedback that might be a benefit to others is much appreciated.

Cumberland County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Cumberland County Jail Inmate List is an online list of people who were arrested and are now in jail, including status, and times you can visit. You can also get information about anyone who has been arrested or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to get their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Cumberland County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Cumberland County Jail includes each of the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you may not be processed immediately.

First, you will answer some simple questions, such as your full legal name, street address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will let you use the telephone to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process may take anywhere between 30 minutes to quite a few hours. In other words the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will be released. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if a judge still needs to decide on the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Cumberland County Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to list information about each visitor to the Cumberland County Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a log of approved visitors for the inmate. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the jail at (910) 672-5630 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Cumberland County Jail you have to be on their approved visitation list.

Make 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 Cumberland County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Cumberland County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Cumberland County Jail 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 Cumberland County Jail. 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 Cumberland County Jail 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Cumberland County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file that contains a court docket and any of the documents and filings filed in the case. You are able to access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Cumberland County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for the following crimes, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates might change, so you should check the Cumberland County Jail website when you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Cumberland County Jail

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 Cumberland County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (910) 672-5630 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 Cumberland County Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably 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 inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Cumberland County Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are generally more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Cumberland County Jail phone number is: (910) 672-5630

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 they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of all 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 Cumberland County Jail. 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring 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 calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison 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 Cumberland County Jail, click the link below.

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