The Sam Perdue Juvenile Center in Mercer County serves as a prison facility for the city of Princeton and other smaller towns surrounding Mercer. As well as inmates awaiting transfer to other prisons, jails and State penitentiaries. Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is one of several Maximum prisons for the State of WV. The listed address of Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is 843 Shelter Rd. This is facility is located in Princeton, WV, 24739-7899. This city is in Mercer. 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. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. WV 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
Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is a State Prison facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Sam Perdue Juvenile Center 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.
Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Sam Perdue Juvenile Center warden is Gary Patton. 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. Sam Perdue Juvenile Center has a current occupancy of 18. The total inmate capacity of Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is officially 22. The living conditions at facilities like Sam Perdue Juvenile Center are often determined by the level of overcrowding. Having to share a bed or having too many inmates in a tight space can lead to conflicts. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Sam Perdue Juvenile Center by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Sam Perdue Juvenile Center. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.