Burke County Jail | Morganton, North Carolina

201 S Green St
Morganton, NC 28655-3524

(828) 438-5481
(828) 438-5477
Burke County Jail
Sheriff Gregory T. Coursey
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Burke County Jail

Burke County Jail is located in Morganton, a city located in Burke County, NC that serves as the prison facility for Burke County and surrounding areas. Burke County Jail is a medium prison facility. One of several in NC It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. Burke County Jail is located in Morganton NC, in the 28655-3524 Zipcode. This is in Burke County NC. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.

Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit send postcards. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. NC has many types of prison facility. City Jails, County Jails, State Jails and State Penitentiaries will each have their own rules and times for visitation and even rules for sending and receiving inmate mail

Burke County Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Burke County Jail will be treated. Prisons and jails today charge for everything. You can expect to pay for soap, toothpaste, phone calls and stamps, books and even paper are all provided for a fee that is often many times higher than the price paid in the free world. Setting up an economical phone service so you can communicate without long distance charges is the first step. Then you should ask your inmate what else they will need and how you can properly send it.

Burke County Jail is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Burke County Jail warden is Sheriff Gregory T. Coursey. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Burke County Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Burke County Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.
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