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Seminole County Jail Information

Address

Seminole County Jail
211 Bush Boulevard
Sanford, FL 32773

Phone Number

Phone Number: (407) 665-1200

The Seminole County Jail is located at 211 Bush Boulevard in Sanford, FL and is a medium security county jail operated by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department.

This page will tell you info about everything related to the Seminole County Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Seminole County Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find Seminole County court records, and everything else.

Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the information and tips you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail a little less stressful. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that could help others would be much appreciated.

Seminole County Jail Inmate Search

Do you have a friend or family member that is incarcerated and don’t know how to contact them? Do you know somebody that has been arrested and you need to locate them?

In order to see who is in jail at the Seminole County Jail you will have to use the search form.

Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Seminole County Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get information about anyone processed or discharged within the last 24 hours. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information fast if you enter the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Seminole County Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Seminole County Jail is made up of each of the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your legal name, home address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process may take between 10 minutes to many hours. So, the quicker you post bail, the faster you can get released from jail. It also will depend on whether or not you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate has to decide on the bail amount. For a minor offense, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the date of your release, you should expect to be released in the morning.

Seminole County Jail Visitation

Inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Seminole County Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor will have to provide a photo ID when visiting. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

The Seminole County Jail visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at (407) 665-1200 before you visit an inmate.

Visiting Hours

Day	Visiting Hours
Monday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Wednesday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Friday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday	9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 5:00pm

Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Seminole County Jail you must be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Seminole County Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody under must get 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to 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 magazines to an inmate at the Seminole County Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Seminole 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.

Mailing Address

Use this address when sending a letter to someone incarcerated at Seminole County Jail:

Seminole County Jail
211 Bush Boulevard
Sanford, FL 32773

Here is how you should address the letter:

[INMATE’S FULL NAME]
[INMATE ID]
Seminole County Jail
211 Bush Boulevard
Sanford, FL 32773

The inmate mail policy at the Seminole County Jail changes, so be sure to check the site when send a letter to someone in jail there.

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Seminole 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 Seminole 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 might have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants inquiry on the website or you can call the court. This requires a first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Seminole County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and this information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file containing a docket and any of the filings and documents filed in your court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Seminole County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you will 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, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to inmates could change, so be sure to double check the Seminole County Jail site before send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Seminole 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 Seminole County Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (407) 665-1200 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 inmateâ€™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 Seminole County Jail store. Inmates can purchase 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 daily, 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 enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

All phone calls from the Seminole County Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are typically more expensive than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Seminole County Jail phone number is: (407) 665-1200

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits 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 Seminole County Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of 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 state prisons and local jails finding out 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 significantly on calling your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Seminole County Jail, click the link below.

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