East Saint Louis is home to the IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in East Saint Louis and Saint Clair County Courts and courts of other cities in the Saint Clair County area areas. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center is located in East Saint Louis IL, in the 62203-1085 Zipcode. This is in Saint Clair County IL. 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. Calling your inmate is the best way to get details about mail and visitation rules for IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center. They can provide you with their individual allowed prison call times and visitation hours and open days. Every prison facility in IL has its own rules. Your loved one will generally be informed of the rules for that facility and any individual restrictions applied.
Il DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center is a State Prison facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center will be treated. Prison is expensive. Even public prison facilities appear to be operating like for-profit prisons these days. Long distance phone calls are a favorite way for jails to make money. Charging inmates for everything from soap to toothpaste is another. Even sending your inmate money to buy these things will come with an added fee. The first thing to do is set up an economical line of communication as suggested above. Then you can communicate with the inmate to discuss a reasonable budget and how the family can work together to pay and keep it.
Il DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center is located in the CST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at IL DOC - Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.