How to Contact an Inmate at Central Prison, NC (NC)
Staying in touch with someone at Central Prison? Your main options are scheduled in-person visits, video visits through an approved list, and mail that gets processed electronically.
In-person visits at Central Prison are by appointment only. Show up without one, and you'll be turned away.
To schedule an in-person visit, call or email the prison directly. Once your appointment is set, call again the day before to confirm the facility's visitation status. This extra step can save you a wasted trip.
Video visits are available only to people on the incarcerated person's approved visitors list. You can schedule them through the Getting Out Visits app, either on-demand or for a specific date and time.
Sending letters or photos? All non-legal mail in NCDAC prisons is screened and scanned by TextBehind, then delivered electronically to tablets.
Note: Mail must be addressed in the exact TextBehind format: offender name and OPUS number, full prison name with no abbreviations, then P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. Anything addressed incorrectly gets returned to sender.
- Schedule the appointment: In-person visits are by appointment only, so call or email the prison where the person is housed to set it up.
- Confirm the day before: Call the prison the day before your scheduled visit to confirm the facility’s visitation status.
- Make sure you are approved: Video visits are limited to people on the incarcerated person’s approved visitors list.
- Use the Getting Out Visits app: Use the app to request an on-demand video visit or schedule one for a future time and date.
- ✓ Address your letter knowing non-legal mail is screened and scanned by TextBehind, then delivered electronically to tablets.
- ✓ Use this exact address format:
- ✓ Offender Name and OPUS Number
- ✓ Central Prison (do not abbreviate)
- ✓ P.O. Box 247
- ✓ Phoenix, MD 21131
- ✓ Double-check the format before you mail it, because mail not addressed this way will be returned to the sender.
Before making plans, verify Central Prison's current phone and email contact details so you reach the right staff for scheduling. Confirm whether the day-before call is still required. For video visits, check that the Getting Out Visits app is still in use and whether scheduling procedures have changed.
- ✓ Confirm that non-legal mail is still being processed through TextBehind and delivered electronically to tablets.
- ✓ Confirm you have the correct addressing format: offender name plus OPUS number, then the full prison name with no abbreviations.
- ✓ Confirm the mailing address is still P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131.
- ✓ Ask what happens if something is missing or abbreviated, since mail not addressed in the required format is returned to the sender.
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