Lee County Jail

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The Lee County Jail is located at 113 Gregg Street in Bishopville, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Lee County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you information about anything related to the Lee County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Lee County Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, court information, and more.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Lee County Jail
10. How to Search Lee County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is designed to give advice and information you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a lot easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that might help other people in the same situation will be much appreciated.

Lee County Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lee County Jail Inmate Lookup is a roster of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including status, and visiting schedule. You can also find info for anyone booked or released in the past 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find the information quicker if you enter their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Lee County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Lee County Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. When the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer some basic questions, like your full legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will get to use the telephone so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to wear your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be discharged from jail. The discharge process will take from 10 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether or not you have a cash bond or if a magistrate still needs to figure out the amount of bail to be set. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Lee County Jail Visitation

The inmate must give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Lee County Jail before anyone can visit them. This information will be put into the visitation log for the inmate. Every visitor will be required to provide proof of identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

The Lee County Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the official Lee County Jail at (803) 484-5353 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Lee County Jail you have to first be added to their 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.

No cellphones at Lee County Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. No personal belongings. Anybody probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Usually is not approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Lee County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lee County Jail 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 Lee County Jail. 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 Lee County Jail 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, you can access arrest warrants on the Lee County jail website or you are able to call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a case file containing a docket sheet and all of the filings and documents filed in the court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at the Lee County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a completely different state, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Lee County Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so you should review the Lee County Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lee County Jail

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 Lee County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (803) 484-5353 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 Lee County Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as personal 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 Lee County Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are usually more expensive than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on 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 are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges may be limited or totally denied.

The Lee County Jail phone number is: (803) 484-5353

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all 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 Lee County Jail. 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be 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 a lot of money on calling 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 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 Lee County Jail, click the link below.

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