Grainger County Detention Center, TN Inmate Search, Visitation Hours

270 Justice Center Drive PO Box 5, Rutledge, TN, 37861
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The Grainger County Detention Center is operated and ran by the Grainger County Sheriff’s Department. The Grainger County Detention Center is a medium-security county facility that will house both adult male and adult female inmates from the county and other counties when needed.
Majority of the inmates who are in the Grainger County Detention Center are inmates who are waiting for their trial to begin, going through their trial, or inmates who have already been sentenced.
The Grainger County Detention Center will only house inmates who have two or years on their sentence.
Inmates in the Grainger County Detention Center will have the chance to have a work assignment if they are not enrolled in an academic program. A work assignment will allow an inmate to earn a little bit of money while they hold down a job within the Grainger County Detention Center.
Inmates who have a work assignment save the Grainger County taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
Grainger County Detention Center — General Information
Adult, Capacity 100 persons.
270 Justice Center Drive PO Box 5, Rutledge, TN, 37861
865-828-3613
Grainger County Sheriffs Department
Address: 270 Justice Center Drive, Rutledge, Tennessee, 37861
Phone: 865-828-3613
Fax: 865-828-4775
How to Find Someone in Grainger County Detention Center
Need records about an inmate? Trying to locate information on them, but do not know where to begin?
The Grainger County Detention Center does have their inmate roster on the internet for you to search at your leisure.
The database is located here. You can search the database by the inmate’s name.
Sending a Mail/Care Package
Nationwide Inmate Records Online Check
All incoming and outgoing mail from the Grainger County Detention Center will be opened by a staff member and scanned. The only items that will not be scanned or opened not in front of an inmate is legal mail.
All mail being sent to the Grainger County Detention Center will need to have your return address and be mailed by the United States Postal Service.
Mail can be made out to the following address:
INMATE’S FIRST & LAST NAME
Inmate’s Cell Location and ID Number
Grainger County Detention Center
270 Justice Center Drive PO Box 5, Rutledge, TN, 37861
Sending Money
The Grainger County Detention Center offers a few different ways you can send money to an inmate to help fund their account.
The first way is you can mail a money order to the above address. You will need to have the inmate’s full name along with their ID number on it.
If you are local to the Grainger County Detention Center you can always stop in and drop off the money order as well.
There is also a kiosk in the Grainger County Detention Center that you can use to deposit funds as well. This kiosk will accept credit card, debit card, and cash payments. Please note the kiosk will not accept $1 bills and does not make change as well.
If you do not live local, you can log onto smartdeposit.com to fund an inmate’s account. You will need to know the ID number of the inmate in order to put money on their books. Smartdeposit also charges a service fee that starts at $2.95.
The minimum amount you can put on with Smartdeposit is $5, and the maximum you can put on an inmate’s books is $200 a week.
Phone calls
The Grainger County Detention Center will permit the inmates to call home. These calls inmates will make are collect calls. Inmates will only be able to call individuals who have a landline. Cell phones cannot receive collect calls.
Inmates are limited to a 15-minute phone conversation to ensure that all inmates can make calls home to their loved ones.
Visitation
Visitation in the Grainger County Detention Center is by appointment only. You will need to contact the Grainger County Detention Center to set up a visitation appointment.
All visitation is no-contact visit. You will be visiting an inmate through a video call. Make sure to bring your identification card to be permitted to the visitation room.
Visiting Hours
Directions
Refer the map below to find the driving directions.
Nearby Jail/Prison
Other Types of Correctional Facilities in Tennessee
- City Jail 105
- State Prison 29