How to Stay in Touch With Someone at Claiborne Parish Detention Center
You can choose among outgoing calls, approved voicemail, remote video visits and electronic messages, then set up the appropriate service. Ordinary incoming calls are not accepted, so you must use one of the supported options.
These instructions are for Claiborne Parish Detention Center, which houses male offenders age 17 or older. Claiborne Parish Jail for women is a separate facility.
The detention center is at 1415 Highway 520, Homer, LA 71040. Its general contact number is 318-927-4201.
People held at the facility receive access to private-use telephones in their housing areas after completing booking. Other supported options include approved voicemail messages, remote video visits, messages and approved electronic pictures. Ally Telecom provides the prepaid calling service, while the NCIC account instructions below apply to video visits and messaging.
You cannot place an ordinary incoming call to an incarcerated person. Voicemail messages may be left for approved incarcerated people.
Ally Telecom Group offers the facility’s prepaid calling service. Local, long-distance and international calls are billed by the minute with no connection fee, using prepaid collect or inmate debit. Three-way calls are prohibited.
The listed rate is $0.20 per minute for calls within the United States, $0.25 per minute for calls to Mexico and Canada, and $0.35 per minute for other international calls.
An NCIC prepaid account can fund remote video visits and messaging. Video visits cost $0.30 per minute, written messages cost $0.25 each, and picture messages and video messages cost $0.35 each.
Pictures must be approved. Messages and photos are delivered instantly, and there is no quantity limit on the messages and photos you can send.
You can use an existing NCIC inmate telephone account to fund video visits and messaging. If you need an account, NCIC provides online and telephone setup routes, with account funding and support available 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
- Check whether you already have an NCIC inmate telephone account.
- If you do not, create one at account.ncic.com, use the Spanish-language site at cuenta.ncic.com, or call the NCIC call center at 1-800-943-2189.
- Fund the prepaid account before using it for video visits or messaging.
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