Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center | Tacoma, Washington

910 Tacoma Ave S
Tacoma, WA 98402-2104

(253) 798-4590
Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center
Sheriff Paul A. Pastor
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1985
minimum, medium, and maximum
County Jail

Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center

Tacoma is home to the Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Tacoma and Pierce County Courts and courts of other cities in the Pierce County area areas. Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center is one of several minimum, medium, and maximum prisons for the State of WA. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center is located in Tacoma WA, in the 98402-2104 Zipcode. This is in Pierce County WA. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.

Prisons in WA, like many others these days can make it difficult and costly for inmates to call the outside. This is also true of Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections 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. Calling your inmate is the best way to get details about mail and visitation rules for Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center. They can provide you with their individual allowed prison call times and visitation hours and open days. Every prison facility in WA has its own rules. Your loved one will generally be informed of the rules for that facility and any individual restrictions applied.

Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center 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.

Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center is located in the PST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center warden is Sheriff Paul A. Pastor. 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. Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center currently holds around 1131 inmates. At full capacity Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center was built to hold 1700. How crowded Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center is at any moment can significantly affect living conditions. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Pierce County WA Detention & Corrections 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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