Yancey County Detention Center, NC Inmate Search, Visitation Hours

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First and foremost, the Yancey County Detention Center has been around since 1845. Since the first day of operation at the Yancey County Detention Center, the Yancey County Sheriff’s Department was the agency involved in managing and overseeing the daily operation.
The Yancey County Sheriff’s Department was first established around the late 1700s and was in the same location until they built the new sheriff’s department and included the Yancey County Detention Center.
The Yancey County Detention Center was in constant operation from the time it was built in 1845 to 1971. The Yancey County Detention Center closed its doors until the mid-1980s.
Yancey County Detention Center — General Information
Adult, Capacity 45 persons.
PO Box 6, Burnsville, NC, 28714
http://www.yanceycountync.gov/departments/sheriffs-department
828-682-2124
Yancey County Sheriffs Department
Address: 6 East Main Street, Burnsville, North Carolina, 28714
Phone: 828-682-2124
Email: [email protected]
Website: website
How to Find Someone in Yancey County Detention Center
Yancey County Detention Center does not have their inmate roster available to the public.
If you wanted to find out information on an inmate, you always had to contact the Yancey County Sheriff’s Office directly for information.
Sending a Mail/Care Package
Nationwide Inmate Records Online Check
You can send and receive letters from inmates. All incoming and outgoing mail are always carefully examined by a staff member that works at the Yancey County Detention Center to ensure the mail does not have contraband or other content it should not have.
Sending Money
You can send inmates money through the mail using a money order, if you do not live local.
If you are local to the Yancey County Detention Center, you can come down to the facility with your money order. This is the only way besides mailing a money order, how you can put money on the inmate’s books.
This method can take a few business days before the money can be officially deposited into the inmate’s account.
Phone calls
Inmates at the Yancey County Detention Center are permitted to use the telephones daily, but the inmates can only make collect calls.
Collect calls can only be made to individuals who have a landline and not a cell phone. Also, the receiver of the call has to pay the fees that incurred with receiving a collect call as well.
Visitation
You can visit an inmate at the Yancey County Detention Center, but you need to bring your government issued identification card to be permitted to the visitation room.
Those under the age of 16 years, need to be accompanied by their legal guardian.
Visiting Hours
Directions
Refer the map below to find the driving directions.
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