Haywood County Detention Facility

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The Haywood County Detention Facility is located at 1620 Brown Avenue in Waynesville, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Haywood County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you info about everything related to the Haywood County Detention Facility, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Haywood County court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you advice and information that you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others is welcome.

Haywood County Detention Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Haywood County Detention Facility Inmate Locator is a list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. You can also find the same information for anyone booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can get their inmate information fast if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Haywood County Detention Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Haywood County Detention Facility includes the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first step is that you have to answer some questions, like what is your full legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to use the telephone so you can talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged may take from 15 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get released. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you have a cash bond or if a judge has to decide on your bail amount. For a minor charge, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served your sentence and know the date of your release, you should plan to get released that morning.

Haywood County Detention Facility Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Haywood County Detention Facility before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be entered into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies are always changing, so we suggest that you call the facility at (828) 452-6666 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Haywood County Detention Facility you have to first be added to their visitation list.

Make sure to take your up to date government issued ID or valid driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Haywood County Detention Facility, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If the 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 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 Haywood County Detention Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Haywood County Detention Facility 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 Haywood County Detention Facility. 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 Haywood County Detention Facility 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants on the Haywood County jail website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear 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 the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Haywood County jail, by phone, in person, or look online. Records of arrests are public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. You are able to go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Haywood County Detention Facility might change, so we suggest that you visit the Haywood County Detention Facility site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Haywood County Detention Facility

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 Haywood County Detention Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (828) 452-6666 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 Haywood County Detention Facility store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely need to use 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 purchase if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal 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 Haywood County Detention Facility are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges may be limited or forbidden.

Phone Number: (828) 452-6666

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Haywood County Detention Facility. 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 can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up 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 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 facility has set their phone call rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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