Jonesborough is home to the Washington County Detention Center. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Jonesborough and Washington County Courts and courts of other cities in the Washington 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. Washington County Detention Center is located in Jonesborough TN, in the 37659-0097 Zipcode. This is in Washington County TN. 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. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. TN 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
Washington 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 Washington County Detention 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.
Washington County Detention Center is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Washington County Detention Center warden is Major Brenda Downes. 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. Washington County Detention Center has a current occupancy of 565. The total inmate capacity of Washington County Detention Center is officially 578. The living conditions at facilities like Washington County Detention Center are often determined by the level of overcrowding. Having to share a bed or having too many inmates in a tight space can lead to conflicts. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Washington County Detention Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Washington County Detention Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.