Wilson County Detention Center

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The Wilson County Detention Center is located at 100 Green Street East in Wilson, NC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything related to the Wilson 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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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give info that you need to make the process a lot easier. If you have a question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or tips that would help others would be welcome.

Wilson County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Wilson County Detention Center Inmate Lookup has information about individuals who are in jail, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find info for anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the last 24 hours. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Wilson County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Wilson County Detention Center is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First you must answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, date of birth 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 your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will let you make a telephone call so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes from 15 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the sooner you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released will depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate must figure out your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a release date, plan to get released at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Wilson County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate need to give information about each visitor to the Wilson County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will be turned away.

The Wilson County Detention Center visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the official Wilson County Detention Center at (252) 237-2522 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Wilson County Detention Center you have to have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation because you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Wilson County Detention Center, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Wilson County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Wilson 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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 arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you are able to call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. An arrest is public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access the court records on the website, or at the Wilson County Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of a person’s criminal past. These state databases are connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You are able to go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Wilson County Detention Center might change, so it would be best to check the Wilson County Detention Center site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Wilson 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 Wilson County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (252) 237-2522 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 Wilson County Detention Center store. An inmate can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These items 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

The only phone calls that Wilson County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. 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 should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: (252) 237-2522

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits 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 Wilson County Detention Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different 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 learning how to decrease 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. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

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

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