Avon Park is home to the Avon Park Correctional Institution. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Avon Park and Polk County Courts and courts of other cities in the Polk County area areas. Avon Park Correctional Institution is one of several Close, Medium, Minimum, Community prisons for the State of FL. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. Avon Park Correctional Institution is located in Avon Park FL, in the 33825-6801 Zipcode. This is in Polk County FL. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.
Calling inmates can be costly. Some prisons charge inmates up to $14 a minute for long-distance calls. To avoid these fees, set up a local phone number that rings at your phone number(s) no matter where you live. GlobalTel.com can provide local numbers that won't have to pay any extra for long distance. You can reach them 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. FL 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
Avon Park Correctional Institution is a State Prison facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Avon Park Correctional Institution 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.
Avon Park Correctional Institution is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Avon Park Correctional Institution warden is Warden Timothy Sheffield. 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. Avon Park Correctional Institution currently holds around 942 inmates. At full capacity Avon Park Correctional Institution was built to hold 956. How crowded Avon Park Correctional Institution is at any moment can significantly affect living conditions. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Avon Park Correctional Institution by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Avon Park Correctional Institution. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.