Abbeville County Detention Center

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The Abbeville County Detention Center is located at 59 Old Calhoun Falls Road in Abbeville, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Abbeville County Sheriff’s Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything you might need to know about the Abbeville County Detention Center, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to offer info you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail easier. If you have questions, just ask it, and any feedback or comments that might be a benefit to other people in the same situation would be appreciated.

Abbeville County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Abbeville County Detention Center Inmate Lookup is an online list of people currently in custody, including custody status, and visiting schedule. Also, you can find information for anyone arrested and processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to get their inmate information faster if you’ve got their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Abbeville County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

The first step is that you must answer a number of questions, like your full name, address, birthdate and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to use the telephone in order to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to wear your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process will take between 10 minutes to all day. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you can get released from jail. It also might depend on whether or not you’ve got a bond amount or if the magistrate needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to be discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Abbeville County Detention Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Abbeville County Detention Center before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in the visitors log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor will have to provide identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Abbeville County Detention Center visitation procedures change often, so call the official Abbeville County Detention Center at (864) 446-6200 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Abbeville County Detention Center you must be added to their approved visitation list.

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

No cellphones are allowed at Abbeville County Detention Center, and you will be searched before entering. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the 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, 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 Abbeville County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Abbeville 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 Abbeville 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 Abbeville 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants on the Abbeville County court website or call the court directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be 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 jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records on the website, or at the Abbeville County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains records of their state citizen’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Abbeville County Detention Center jail inmates could change, so it would be best to double check the Abbeville County Detention Center site before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Abbeville 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 Abbeville County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (864) 446-6200 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 Abbeville County Detention Center store. You can purchase several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely 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 inmates can purchase if they have enough money in their account. These items 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Abbeville County Detention Center are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely.

The Abbeville County Detention Center phone number is: (864) 446-6200

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Abbeville 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 finding out 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 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 circumstances where we will not 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 jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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