The Okeechobee Correctional Institution in the city of Okeechobee serves as the prison for Okeechobee County County and other nearby cities. Okeechobee Correctional Institution is a close, medium, minimum, community security prison facility located in Okeechobee County. Okeechobee Correctional Institution is a state prison, serving Okeechobee and surrounding areas. The address listed for the Okeechobee Correctional Institution facility is Okeechobee Florida 34972-4826, but you should always check that an inmate is at a location and able to receive visitors before traveling to this location.
More than anything, inmates need contact with their friends and family on the outside. Jails and Prisons don’t make this easy. Many charge inmates up to $14 a minute to make a long-distance phone call. Fortunately, there is an easy way to provide the jail with a local number your inmate can call that will ring your phone and/or those of other family and friends no matter where everyone lives. An inmate can then make their calls using the local number rate while talking to friends and family long distance. This service is provided by Globaltel at Inmate Calls. To send mail to an inmate go to Jail Postcards.
City Jails generally house people who have been recently arrested and/or those awaiting trial. Many inmates may also be serving shorter sentences following trial, while others may serve time there while awaiting transfer to longer term state our county prison facilities. Each type of prison or jail facility will have different visiting hours and rules and procedures for visiting. It’s important to get set up with phone service so you can get these details about these jail visitation times and procedures from your inmate.
Okeechobee Correctional Institution is a state prison, so most Florida state prison inmates at Okeechobee Correctional Institution will be serving longer sentences for more serious crimes than those held in City Police Jails or County Prisons. Incarceration in a State prison is hard on inmates and their families. Inmates will need regular funding for their commissary accounts to purchase items like postage, phone calls and even items like soap and toothpaste. This can be an extra burden on their family, so setting up a discount prison call account to avoid the fees jails charge for long distance calls is important. This can be set up at thru Globaltel’s local jail call service at Inmate Calls. Getting friends and family to chip in to regularly fund the inmate’s commissary account can also ease the financial burden on those now left to support their household on their own.
Okeechobee Correctional Institution is in the EST time zone. The warden at Okeechobee Correctional Institution is Warden Lars Severson. The current capacity of Okeechobee Correctional Institution is 1659. The total capacity of Okeechobee Correctional Institution is 1632. This can give you an indication of what living conditions are like at Okeechobee Correctional Institution. It’s important for families of inmates to help each other with information and tips about the prison facility they are in. You can leave comments and tips below about the best places to stay when visiting your inmate as well comments about any local service organization not already on our list of those available to help local families of inmates. We urge you to add your own comments about Okeechobee Correctional Institution below. “