What Happens If You Arrive During Mealtime or Count at Greenville County Detention Center
Timing matters at Greenville County Detention Center. Show up when booths are full, during a meal, or around count time, and you'll wait. Some requests won't be processed at all until the restriction lifts.
If the visitation booths in your person's housing unit are already full - or a meal is in progress - staff will ask you to wait until a booth opens or the meal ends. The facility caps this wait at 30 minutes.
Tip: Build a buffer into your arrival time. Full booths or an ongoing meal could mean a wait - but never more than 30 minutes.
During meal windows, certain business stops. Requests to sign out an inmate or conduct an interview won't be processed until the meal period ends (court appearances are the exception). If you arrive during one of these times, expect to wait.
- ✓ Breakfast: 05:30–07:00
- ✓ Lunch: 11:00–12:30
- ✓ Supper: 16:00–17:30
Counts pause activity too. Sign-out and interview requests won't be processed during institutional counts, recounts, or headcounts - court appearances excepted. Regular counts start at 07:00, 15:00, and 22:00, so arriving right at those times means waiting until the count wraps up.
- Check the clock before you head in - regular counts begin at 07:00, 15:00, and 22:00.
- Avoid arriving right on a count time - during counts (and any recounts/headcounts), sign-out and interview requests won’t be honored.
- Plan around the restriction - if you’re close to a count start time, expect a delay and be ready to wait until the count is complete.
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