Can Families Bring Medications or Personal Items to Yadkin County Detention Center?

Yadkin County Detention Center doesn't accept personal items from outside. Clothing, hygiene products, books, other belongings - none of it can be dropped off at the door for an inmate.

Medications are handled differently than personal property. At Yadkin County Detention Center, all medications must be preapproved and supplied by the facility's health care provider - not brought in by family. The detention center contracts medical care and screening through Southern Health Partners. Their medical team decides what medications get approved and how they're provided while your loved one is in custody.

Since outside items aren't accepted, inmates get what they need through commissary. Yadkin County Detention Center partners with Kimble's as its commissary vendor. Your loved one can set up a commissary account and use those funds to purchase approved personal items.

• ✓ Ask your loved one about setting up their commissary account so they can purchase items through the commissary vendor.
• ✓ Add money using the ATM kiosk located in the Detention Center lobby (the lobby is open 24/7).
• ✓ Add money online using JailATM.com (available as a 24-hour service).
• ✓ Skip money orders - Yadkin County Detention Center no longer accepts money orders for inmate accounts.

If your loved one needs a prescription while at Yadkin County Detention Center, everything has to go through the jail's medical process. Medications must be preapproved and provided by the facility's health care provider - Southern Health Partners handles medical care and screening for the detention center. Worried about a specific medication? Focus on confirming how the jail wants prescription information submitted and what's needed for preapproval. That's usually faster and more effective than showing up with medicine staff can't accept.

1. Call the detention center - Ask what the process is for medication preapproval and how prescriptions are handled for someone currently in custody.
2. Request the medical contact - Ask to be directed to medical staff (or the appropriate contact) since medications must be approved and provided through the jail’s health care provider.
3. Ask what information they need - Confirm what details are required to review a prescription for preapproval and how that information should be provided.