Gretna is home to the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Gretna and Jefferson County Courts and courts of other cities in the Jefferson County area areas. In order to visit inmates at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, you'll be traveling to Gretna, LA, 70053-5801 in Jefferson. The address of this facility is listed as 100 Dolhonde St. But it's important that you verify that your inmate is at this location before making travel arrangements.
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. Always talk with your inmate to learn the hours they are permitted to make phone calls or receive visitors. Facilities like Jefferson Parish Correctional Center have rules for sending mail and restrictions on the days and times allowed for visitation, Facilities in LA each have different rules that you'll be required to follow. So don't assume they are the same as each other.
Jefferson Parish Correctional Center is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Jefferson Parish 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.
Jefferson Parish 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 Jefferson Parish Correctional Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.