Hampton County Detention Center

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The Hampton County Detention Center is located at 409 Cemetery Road in Varnville, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Hampton County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything you might want to know about the Hampton County Detention Center, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and more.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Hampton County Detention Center
10. How to Search Hampton County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and tips that you need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and any comments or feedback that might help other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Hampton County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Hampton County Detention Center Inmate Roster is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. You can also find the same information for anyone processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Hampton County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you have to answer a number of questions, like your full name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone to call a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your street clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process will take between 30 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged might depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if a judge needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, you should plan to get released between 9am and noon.

Hampton County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Hampton County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will go into a Visiting log for the inmate. All visitors is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Hampton County Detention Center change often, so make sure that you call the official Hampton County Detention Center at (803) 914-2223 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Hampton County Detention Center you must first be on this person’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring 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 mobile phones at Hampton County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Hampton County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Hampton 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 Hampton 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 Hampton 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 an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Hampton County court website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if there is a 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 the date of their arrest, contact the Hampton County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a case file containing a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. Go to the Hampton County Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a 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 someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Hampton County Detention Center could change, so check the Hampton County Detention Center site when you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Hampton 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 Hampton County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (803) 914-2223 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 Hampton County Detention Center store. An inmate can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember 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 an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products like 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 Hampton County Detention Center are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are a lot more costly than phone calls made at home. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (803) 914-2223

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers 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 profits from all 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 Hampton County Detention Center. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 state prisons and local 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 calling 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 will not 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 has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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