Meridian is home to the East Mississippi Correctional Facility. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Meridian and Lauderdale County Courts and courts of other cities in the Lauderdale County area areas. East Mississippi Correctional Facility is one of several minimum, medium, and maximum prisons for the State of MS. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. East Mississippi Correctional Facility is located in Meridian MS, in the 39307-9256 Zipcode. This is in Lauderdale County MS. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.
Inmates and their families require regular contact in order to stay close and connected. But Jails and Prisons often make contact with the outside difficult and costly. Some charge inmates long distance call charges of up to $14 a minute. Few families can afford to talk at those prices. Fortunately, setting up a local number that ring thru to a long distance phone enable inmates to talk at local phone rates to family and friends no matter where they live. To do this you'll need a Jail Call service provided by Globaltel at
jail calls. You can also send mail to an inmate. Just click here:
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. MS 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
East Mississippi Correctional Facility is a State Prison facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at East Mississippi Correctional Facility 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.
East Mississippi Correctional Facility is located in the CST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current East Mississippi Correctional Facility warden is Frank Shaw. 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. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in East Mississippi Correctional Facility by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at East Mississippi Correctional Facility. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.