Helena is home to the Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Helena and Lewis and Clark County Courts and courts of other cities in the Lewis and Clark County area areas. When MT residents are sentenced to a medium prison, they are often sent to Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. In order to visit inmates at Lewis and Clark County Detention Center, you'll be traveling to Helena, MT, 59601-4230 in Lewis and Clark. The address of this facility is listed as 221 Breckenridge St. But it's important that you verify that your inmate is at this location before making travel arrangements.
Prisons in MT, like many others these days can make it difficult and costly for inmates to call the outside. This is also true of Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. Some charge long distance fees of over $10 a minute making it almost impossible to maintain relationships and family ties. Inmate families have found they can avoid these abusive fees by setting up a local prison phone number that ring their long distance phone. A company called GlobalTel.com provides this service and they can be contacted here:
jail calls. They also provide an easy way to send mail to an inmate. To use their mail service, click here:
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. MT 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
Lewis and Clark County Detention Center is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Lewis and Clark County Detention 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.
Lewis and Clark County Detention Center is located in the MST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Lewis and Clark County Detention Center warden is Captain Alan Hughes. 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. Lewis and Clark County Detention Center currently holds around 82 inmates. At full capacity Lewis and Clark County Detention Center was built to hold 58. How crowded Lewis and Clark County Detention Center is at any moment can significantly affect living conditions. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Lewis and Clark County Detention Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.