Spartanburg County Detention Center

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The Spartanburg County Detention Center is located at 950 California Avenue in Spartanburg, SC and is a medium security county jail operated by the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department.

This site will tell you all the information about everything you might need to know about the Spartanburg County Detention Center, such as how to find an inmate at the Spartanburg County Detention Center, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Spartanburg County Detention Center
10. How to Search Spartanburg County Arrest Records

Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and advice that you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a question, feel free to ask them, and any comments or tips that could be beneficial to others will be welcome.

Spartanburg County Detention Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Spartanburg County Detention Center Inmate Locator is a roster of people who have been arrested, including status, and visiting schedule. You can get the same information about anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their arrest information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Spartanburg County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First you will answer some questions, such as your full legal name, home address, birthdate and an emergency contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and mental history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call to call family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get discharged from jail. Getting discharged can take between 30 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster you post bail, the sooner you will be freed. It also depends on if you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge still needs to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the release date, plan to be released between 9am and noon.

Spartanburg County Detention Center Visitation

The inmate have to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Spartanburg County Detention Center in advance of the visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a Visiting log for the inmate. All visitors must provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies can change, so you should call the facility at (864) 596-2607 before you visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Spartanburg County Detention Center you must first be on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Spartanburg County Detention Center, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not going to be approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Spartanburg County Detention Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants on the website or you can call the jail directly. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the Spartanburg County jail, by phone, in person, or find out online. An arrest is a matter of public record and this is freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from another state. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for the following crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Spartanburg County Detention Center jail inmates might change, so review the Spartanburg County Detention Center site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County Detention Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (864) 596-2607 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 Spartanburg County Detention Center store. You can buy a number of things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Spartanburg County Detention Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are a lot more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

Phone Number: (864) 596-2607

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of 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 Spartanburg County Detention Center. The rates 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails learning how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail 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 Spartanburg County Detention Center, click the link below.

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