Kershaw County Detention Facility

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The Kershaw County Detention Facility is located at 101 Bramblewood Plantation Road in Camden, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you info about everything related to the Kershaw County Detention Facility, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and advice that you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it, and also any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to others will be much appreciated.

Kershaw County Detention Facility Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Kershaw County Detention Facility Inmate Roster is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to find info for anybody who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information faster if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Kershaw County Detention Facility Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Kershaw County Detention Facility includes each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first step is that you will answer some basic questions, such as your legal name, street address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to use the phone to call family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. In other words the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to be released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Kershaw County Detention Facility Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to list information about each visitor to the Kershaw County Detention Facility in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies change often, so it would be wise to call the official Kershaw County Detention Facility at (803) 425-1516 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Kershaw County Detention Facility you have to be on their visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Kershaw County Detention Facility, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. 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 old and is not a family member of 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 Kershaw County Detention Facility. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Kershaw 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 Kershaw 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 Kershaw 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Kershaw County court website or call the court directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. They include a case file that includes a docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Kershaw County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are all linked so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for any crimes, which can include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to someone in jail at the Kershaw County Detention Facility might change, so check the Kershaw County Detention Facility site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Kershaw 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 Kershaw County Detention Facility uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (803) 425-1516 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 Kershaw County Detention Facility store. Inmates can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products 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 Kershaw County Detention Facility inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are generally pricier than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about 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 break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or cut altogether.

Phone Number: (803) 425-1516

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Kershaw County Detention Facility. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 lower your inmates phone charges is 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 significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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