Pitt County Detention Center

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The Pitt County Detention Center is located at 124 New Hope Road in Greenville, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Pitt County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Pitt County Detention Center, such as how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you information and tips that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail 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 beneficial to others will be appreciated.

Pitt County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Pitt County Detention Center Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested, including current status, and times you can visit. Also, you can find info on anyone arrested and processed or discharged in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can find the information fast if you enter your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Pitt County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Pitt County Detention Center is made up 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.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some basic questions, such as your legal name, address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you use the telephone so you can get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process may take between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. It also might depend on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if the judge must figure out the bail amount. For minor charges, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a date of your release, you should expect to get released in the morning.

Pitt County Detention Center Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide information about each visitor to the Pitt County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will go in the visitation log for the inmate. Every visitor must provide proof of identification. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so you should call the jail at (252) 902-2868 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Pitt County Detention Center you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to take 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 cellphones are allowed at Pitt County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to 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 under the age of 18 and is not related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Pitt County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Pitt 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 Pitt 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 Pitt 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 have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants inquiry on the Pitt County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should be clear that if there is a warrant for your arrest, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and their arrest date, contact the Pitt County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file containing a court docket and all of the documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records online, or at the clerk’s office of the court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are all linked and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check the website. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and in the event that it was in a totally different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for these crimes, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Pitt County Detention Center inmates are always changing, so you should double check the Pitt County Detention Center website before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Pitt 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 Pitt County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (252) 902-2868 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 Pitt County Detention Center store. You can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Pitt County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . These phone calls are a lot more expensive than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated altogether.

The Pitt County Detention Center phone number is: (252) 902-2868

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, 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 Pitt 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 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 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 significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail has set their calling prices in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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