The Grimes Unit in Jackson County serves as a prison facility for the city of Newport and other smaller towns surrounding Jackson. As well as inmates awaiting transfer to other prisons, jails and State penitentiaries. Grimes Unit is one of several medium - maximum prisons for the State of AR. The listed address of Grimes Unit is 300 Corrections Dr. This is facility is located in Newport, AR, 72112-8042. This city is in Jackson. Before traveling, you should always call the jail to verify your inmate is still located at this address and that they can receive visitors.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at
inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit
send postcards. Calling your inmate is the best way to get details about mail and visitation rules for Grimes Unit. They can provide you with their individual allowed prison call times and visitation hours and open days. Every prison facility in AR has its own rules. Your loved one will generally be informed of the rules for that facility and any individual restrictions applied.
Grimes Unit is a State Prison facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Grimes Unit will be treated. Prison is expensive. Even public prison facilities appear to be operating like for-profit prisons these days. Long distance phone calls are a favorite way for jails to make money. Charging inmates for everything from soap to toothpaste is another. Even sending your inmate money to buy these things will come with an added fee. The first thing to do is set up an economical line of communication as suggested above. Then you can communicate with the inmate to discuss a reasonable budget and how the family can work together to pay and keep it.
Grimes Unit is located in the CST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Grimes Unit warden is Area Manager Shirley Ellingburg. 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 Grimes Unit by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Grimes Unit. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.