Wood County WV Jail is located in Parkersburg, a city located in Wood County, WV that serves as the prison facility for Wood County and surrounding areas. When WV residents are sentenced to a medium prison, they are often sent to Wood County WV Jail. It's important to call an inmate first to make sure they can receive visitors and that they are still at the facility. Wood County WV Jail is located in Parkersburg WV, in the 26101-5307 Zipcode. This is in Wood County WV. Before traveling or booking hotels, always verify with your inmate first.
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
Wood County WV Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Wood County WV Jail 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.
Wood County WV Jail is located in the EST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Wood County WV Jail warden is Sheriff Steven A. Stephens. 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 Wood County WV Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Wood County WV Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.