Macon County NC Detention Center | Franklin, North Carolina

1820 Lakeside Dr
Franklin, NC 28734-6778

(828) 349-2263
(828) 349-2278
Macon County NC Detention Center
Sheriff Robert L. Holland
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Macon County NC Detention Center

Franklin is home to the Macon County NC Detention Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Franklin and Macon County Courts and courts of other cities in the Macon County area areas. Macon County NC Detention Center is one of several medium prisons for the State of NC. In order to visit inmates at Macon County NC Detention Center, you'll be traveling to Franklin, NC, 28734-6778 in Macon. The address of this facility is listed as 1820 Lakeside Dr. 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. 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

Macon County NC 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 Macon County NC 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.

Macon County NC Detention Center is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Macon County NC Detention Center warden is Sheriff Robert L. Holland. 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 Macon County NC Detention Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Macon County NC Detention Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.
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