How to Schedule Your First Visit at South Central Regional Jail (step-by-step)
Scheduling your first visit is straightforward once you understand how South Central Regional Jail handles visits. The key: the incarcerated person initiates the scheduling process, not you.
At South Central Regional Jail, visits happen on the facility's approved visitation days, and the incarcerated person must request each visit. You can't book a slot yourself like you might at other facilities. So here's how to approach your first visit: your loved one requests the visit on an approved day, and your job is making sure the facility has everything it needs from you so that request goes through.
Note: For visits involving juveniles, approval is not automatic. Contact the facility directly for background check approval and to confirm the visit schedule, since the Superintendent can deny a juvenile visit even if a background check is approved.
Info to Have
- ✓ Full legal name (for each adult visitor)
- ✓ Current address (for each adult visitor)
- ✓ Date of birth (for each adult visitor)
- ✓ Telephone number (for each adult visitor)
- ✓ Driver’s license number (for each adult visitor)
Visitor Limits
- ✓ Plan for no more than two adults on a visit.
- ✓ If children are coming, plan for one adult and up to two juveniles (not two adults plus juveniles).
Bringing juveniles? South Central requires notarized visitation forms submitted ahead of time. Build in extra time for this step. Getting documents notarized and submitted often takes longer than first-time visitors expect. Before you make the trip, confirm exactly what paperwork the facility needs for juvenile visitors, and make sure those forms are notarized and submitted the way they require.
Note: Even with notarized juvenile visitation forms and an approved background check, the Superintendent can still deny a juvenile visit. Contact the facility ahead of time to confirm approval and scheduling.
South Central limits visitors to one visit every 30 days from the last visit. This is easy to overlook when juggling work schedules and travel, but it directly affects when you can schedule again. Since visits are scheduled by offender request on approved visitation days, the 30-day limit and the facility's schedule work together. If you visited recently, you may need to wait until that 30-day window resets before another visit can happen.
Arrive late? You don't get a fresh start. You'll only receive whatever time remains in your scheduled slot.
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