Detention Center - Mail / Telephones | Greenville County Government

You may communicate with an inmate via the US mail.
Photographs, drawings, and news clippings are normally acceptable items as long as they do not fall into the restrictions outlined in item 8.
Mail is received Monday through Saturday (excluding holidays) from the Post Office.
Incoming mail is opened and checked for contraband prior to being delivered to an inmate. All legal mail is opened in the presence of the inmate and checked for contraband prior to the inmate receiving it.
InmateТs may receive funds through the mail; we accept US Postal and Western Union money orders. Cash is not recommended to be mailed, but will be accepted if received.
Inmates may purchase envelopes and writing materials through the canteen service; indigent inmates may order these materials, on a routine schedule with costs being debited from their accounts.
Inmates are permitted subscription issues of newspapers, paperback books and magazines mailed directly from the publisher, clearing houses, and book distributors. No hard cover books are allowed.
Mail, newspapers, magazines, paperback books, photographs are not allowed with:

Information regarding the manufacture of explosives, weapons, and ammunition.
Maps, methods of escape from correctional and jail facilities, or blueprints, drawings or similar descriptions.
Procedures for the brewing of alcoholic beverages or the manufacture of drugs.
Information, codes or symbols associated with gang activity.
Materials that advocate racial, religious, or national hatred.
Encouragement or instructions in the commission of criminal activity. Gang related materials are strictly prohibited.
Sexually explicit material such as writings, drawings, photographs, and images, which by its nature poses a threat to the security, good order or discipline of the facility, or which facilitates criminal activity.
Nude or sexually suggestive photographs, drawings, and images.
Content intended to encourage or assist in disrupting the orderly operation of the facility, such as through a criminal act, riot, work stoppage or other breech of facility rules.
Musical/audible greeting cards, pre-paid phone cards, plain or stamped envelopes, plain paper, postage stamps, carbon paper, and any other writing materials.
Items to eat, drink, or smoke, any appliances, and any hygiene items

Acceptable paperback books and magazines may be donated to the Detention Center at the Reception Control window (Public Lobby), 20 McGee St. between 7:00am and 11:00 pm, seven days a week.
To expedite delivery to the inmate, All inmate mail received at the facility should be addressed as follows:

Full Name

Address

City, State, Zip Code

Inmate's Full Name and ID Number

Greenville County Detention Center

20 McGee St

Greenville, SC 29601

You may communicate with an inmate through telephone conversations.
All telephone calls must be initiated by the inmate, provided at the facility; the telephone system will not allow inmates to call cell numbers. Inmates are not allowed to receive calls.
All outgoing calls from inmates are made on collect only telephones.
If do not want an inmate telephoning, contact PAY-TEL Communications at 1-800-PAYTELL.