Lancaster County Detention Center

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The Lancaster County Detention Center is located at 1941 Pageland Highway in Lancaster, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you information about everything related to the Lancaster County Detention Center, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Lancaster County Detention Center, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information and records, and much much more.

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6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Lancaster County Detention Center
7. Lancaster County Detention Center Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Lancaster County Detention Center
10. How to Search Lancaster County Arrest Records

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer advice and information you need to make getting locked up a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any tips or comments that might be beneficial to others would be welcome.

Lancaster County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lancaster County Detention Center Inmate Lookup is an online list of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and times you can visit. You can find the same information for anybody arrested and processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Lancaster County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lancaster County Detention Center is made up of each of the following steps:

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

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some basic questions, like your full name, address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For minor charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the discharge date, expect to be released between 9am and noon.

Lancaster County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Lancaster County Detention Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will be entered into a log of visitors for the requesting inmate. All visitors will be required to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the jail at (803) 283-3388 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Lancaster County Detention Center you must first be added to this person’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Lancaster County Detention Center, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Lancaster County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lancaster 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check court records on the website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. 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, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a court case file containing a court docket and any documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains a record of people’s criminal history. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from any other state. You are able to go to the Lancaster County Courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. 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 might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to someone in jail at the Lancaster County Detention Center could change, so we suggest that you double check the Lancaster County Detention Center website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lancaster 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 Lancaster County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (803) 283-3388 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 Lancaster County Detention Center store. Inmates can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

The only phone calls that Lancaster County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Phone calls made in jail are much pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone might get reduced or totally denied.

The Lancaster County Detention Center phone number is: (803) 283-3388

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. 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 Lancaster County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 finding 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 calling 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. 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 facility has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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