Address:
106 5th St
Pender, NE 68047
Phone:
402-385-3018
Thurston County Jail is, or will soon be, providing tablets for inmates to use for phone and visitation communication, as well as sending and receiving electronic messaging. If you don't see this facility's tablet service company listed below, call the jail at 402-385-3018 for information.
The tablets are not connected directly to the internet, but instead to a server controlled by the Thurston County Jail. This allows all communication between inmates and their contacts to monitored during calls and visits, as well as delays while written communication is reviewed.
Please note that while the jail may provide the tablet for free, there will be a cost for ongoing use of it for entertainment and educational purposes.
Scroll down for a complete section outlining Frequently Asked Questions and Answers regarding renting tablets for Thurston County Jail Inmates.
You can find information about the Thurston County Jail’s tablet program at the top of this page. If there is no information about it, it is because they either have recently changed companies or are not yet providing this service for inmates. Call 402-385-3018 to confirm.
Inmates in jails and prisons are using tablets for all the communication services available such as video visitation, video phone calls, regular phone calls, and electronic messaging – which is like texting and email.
Tablets are also used for entertainment, such as watching movies, television shows, listening to music and reading e-books. It is also used for education, self-help information, and legal research.
No, they are not connected to the internet. All the messages, visits and programming goes through a system controlled by the company that provides the tablets, and through the jail. They control what each inmate sees. All messages are carefully screened and not delivered if the sender or the inmate violates jail policy.
For accessing visits and messages, the tablets are free to us. Each unit has many of them, all provided by the company that has contracted with the jail. Of course, the video visits and messages have a fee and those are paid for by the inmate’s family and friends who use the service.
That’s the question a lot of people ask and don’t fully understand.
The way the jail staff looks at it, is that if they can keep the inmates busy and distracted, it makes it safer for them.
Tablets also give them a certain power over controller an inmate’s behavior. For example, if an inmate knows that they will lose the privilege of having access to a tablet if they get into a fight or violate another rule or policy, they will be better behaved.
Tablets are one of the few things that make an inmate feel as though they are free, and they don’t want to lose the privilege of having access to one.
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Yes, if an inmate breaks a tablet, then they are responsible for paying for it. The money will come out of their commissary funds, so not only do they lose access to having a tablet as punishment, but they also won’t be able to purchase snacks on commissary.
For inmates receiving mail in the Thurston County Jail there are different addresses and policies depending on the inmate's status, as well as what type of mail they are receiving; personal mail, legal mail, subscriptions or books sent from a third-party such as Amazon.
All mail is to be shipped to the Thurston County Jail:
Thurston County Jail
PO Box 370
Pender, NE 68047
For complete information on mail policies, what you can send an inmate and what address to send them, check out our Inmate Mail page.
To send a commissary carepack (food, snacks and goods) directly to an inmate in Thurston County Jail follow these steps:
For all information, tips and available items for shipping Commissary packages or sending money to an inmate in Thurston County Jail check out our Commissary Instructions Page for Thurston County.
To receive phone calls from an inmate in Thurston County follow these instructions:
Thurston County Jail uses the services of NCIC for inmate phone calling. It is called a ‘friends & family account”.
In order to receive phone calls from your inmate, you need to do the following:
NOTE:
1. You cannot receive any calls to your phone number from your inmate until both you and your phone number are registered.
2. When you do receive a call, the number you will view on your phone from the incoming call is: 800-943-2189.
3. When allowed by Thurston County Jail, families can also leave secure voicemails for inmates to listen to.
Fees
NCIC Customer Service
Phone - 800-943-2189 or 903-247-0069
Email – [email protected]
Full list of participating jails.
For all the information regarding phone calls with Thurston County inmates; rules, policies, phone calling times, fees, limits and more visit our Inmate Phone Page.
To deposit money online for an inmate in Thurston County Jail follow these steps:
For all information, tips and procedures for sending money to an inmate in Thurston County Jail, or depositing money at the jail, over the phone or by mail, check out our Send Money Page for Thurston County.
To register and sign up for a remote visitation account with correctpay.com to communicate with your Thurston County Jail inmate, follow the instructions below:
Thurston County Jail uses the services of correctpay.com (aka JailFunds) for you to schedule and visit your inmate via remote video visitation.
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You can ‘video visit’ your inmate one of three ways:
Begin the process to schedule a visit:
24/7 Customer Service - 855-836-3364
For all the information on remote video visits and 'at the jail' visitation for Thurston County Jail, including fees, schedules, how it works and more, check out our Visit Inmate Page.
To send a secure email message and digital photos to an inmate in Thurston County Jail follow these steps:
For all information on how to Text/Email an Inmate in Thurston County Jail and send them photos, check out our Secure Messaging Guide for Thurston County.
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