Williams County Jail Remote Inmate Video Visits

Schedule a Video Visit with an Inmate at the Williams County Jail

Williams County Jail recognizes how important it is for inmates to remain connected with their families and friends. When inmates maintain strong family ties, it helps them reintegrate successfully after release and lowers the chances of reoffending.

Williams County Jail facilitates this connection by offering remote video visitation (or will soon). Through this service, loved ones can communicate with inmates using video kiosks or tablets provided by a third-party service.

Video visitation offers several benefits:

• Improves inmate morale.
• Keeps inmates in touch with their children, family, and friends.
• Reduces the need for staff resources, saving the facility money.
• Brings in additional revenue for the facility.
• Prevents the spread of viruses.
• Reduces the risk of contraband entering the facility.

For more details about video visitation, call the jail at 419-428-3800, or scroll down for more Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.

Williams County Jail

Address:
1425 E. High Street – East Annex
Bryan, OH 43506
Phone:
419-428-3800

Williams County Jail
ON-SITE (at the jail) VISITATION SCHEDULE

• All visits take place using video with 'gettingout' at Corrections Center of NW Ohio.
  
• Appointments may be scheduled up to one week in advance, but no less than 24 hours in advance.
• Visitors should arrive at CCNO to register with Central Control at least 10 minutes prior to the lobby visit for processing. If you are late, your visit will still take place, but will still end at the scheduled time.
• Inmates are allowed one visit per week (Sunday through Saturday) using the CCNO lobby video visitation units.  Inmates who are facility workers and/or in the Public Works Program, Work Release or HITT are allowed two visits per week utilizing the CCNO lobby video visitation units.

Williams County Jail
OFF-SITE (at home) REMOTE VIDEO VISITATION SCHEDULE

• All visits take place using video with 'gettingout' 
  
• Appointments may be scheduled up to one week in advance, but no less than 24 hours in advance.
• Visitors should be at the computer at least 10 minutes prior to the visit. If you are late, your visit will still take place, but will still end at the scheduled time.
• Inmates are allowed one visit per day. If you schedule on ON-site and an OFF-site visit for the same day, the OFF SITE VISIT will be cancelled.

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 Williams County Jail 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.