San Joaquin County Honor Farm Remote Inmate Video Visits

Schedule a Video Visit with an Inmate at the San Joaquin County Honor Farm

San Joaquin County Honor Farm supports maintaining strong ties between inmates and their families. The positive connection to loved ones helps reduce the risk of reoffending once an inmate is released back into the community.

To achieve this, San Joaquin County Honor Farm provides (or plans to provide) remote video visitation. Loved ones can use their phones or computers to connect with their inmate through video kiosks or tablets provided by a third-party service.

Benefits of video visits include:

• Boosts inmate happiness and well-being.
• Keeps inmates in contact with family and friends, including their children.
• Saves time and costs for staff.
• Generates revenue for the facility.
• Helps stop the spread of viruses.
• Prevents contraband from entering the jail through in-person visits.

For additional information about video visits, contact the facility at 209-468-4384, or scroll down for more FAQs and Answers.

San Joaquin County Honor Farm

Address:
999 W. Mathews Road
French Camp, CA 95231
Phone:
209-468-4384

San Joaquin County Honor Farm ON SITE INMATE VISITATION SCHEDULE

999 W. Mathews Road
French Camp, CA 95231
209-468-4384

• A visitor may only visit once each day.
• Only two visitors per inmate can visit at the Honor Farm, but three visitors per inmate can visit at the South Jail and Jail Core. (This includes infants and children).
• Check-in upon arrival at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the visit you want to sign up for.
• Inmate visiting starts at 9:00 am and the last. inmate visit is at 4:00 pm. Note the lunch break has no visits allowed.
• Visits are 45 minutes long starting on the hour.
• Inmates housed get two (2) visits per week based on availability.
• You are only allowed to bring in the following for a visit
  A key to your car
  A state or government picture ID
  If you have a baby, you may bring in a clear plastic bag containing 1 bottle, 1 small blanket, 1 diaper, and wipes to complete a diaper change.
• Any persons under the age of eighteen may visit only when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. A court order will be required for proof of guardianship if not related, and a birth certificate will also be required regardless.
• There's a bunch of other visiting rules and guidelines that you should probably review before your visit.

Frequently Asked Questions about Remote Video Visits

What is a video visit, and how do they work?

Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?

What is a video visit, and how do they work?

Video visitation, also known as remote visitation, is quickly becoming the preferred method for visiting an inmate in jail or prison for the following reasons:

•    It requires little to no staff, versus the staff required to move inmates to and from the visit and watch over the visit. It saves the San Joaquin County Honor Farm money.
•    It removes any opportunity for contraband (drugs) to enter the facility.
•    It can become a profit center for the facility, given that the revenue generated by visits is shared with the jail.
•    While inmates prefer to see family and friends in person, video visitation allows them to visit with them more often, and on a whim.
•    Video visitation gives the inmates and their visitors the feeling of more privacy.

Video visitation from the perspective of the visitor allows them to visit from their home, their car, at work, and even allows them to take their device to a family or religious gathering. It allows them to give their inmate the feeling of belonging and not being forgotten.

Video visitation can take place on a computer, a tablet or a phone. 

Video visitation saves time. Instead of spending hours driving to the jail, checking in, filling out paperwork, potentially being searched, waiting, and then having a 15–30-minute visit, if it isn’t cancelled at the last minute, the visit can be done from anywhere during a short break in the visitor’s day.

If the visitor does not have access to a phone or computer, they can make an appointment ahead of time and use terminals in the lobby of the jail.

You must also be on the inmate's approved list, even for a video visit.

Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?

There are several different companies that contract with all the jails and prisons that allow video visitation:

These are the companies in alphabetical order:

CIDNET
City Tele Coin
Correct Solutions Group
Correct Pay
Ctel
Gettingout
GTL
Homewav
IC Solutions
Inmate Canteen
Inmate Sales
iwebvisits
JailATM
Jpay
NCIC
Prodigy Sales
Reliance
Securus
Smart Communications
Tiger Services
Visitel
In addition, some jails use Microsoft Meeting and Zoom.