Calhoun County Jail

A judge does, at a bond hearing that South Carolina requires within 24 hours (S.C. Code 22-5-510(B)). Usually that judge is a magistrate. Town judges in St. Matthews and Cameron hold that same bond power in town cases (S.C. Code 14-25-115).

Calhoun's busiest magistrate office sits at 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112, weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Because your person waits at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, the hearing could come from a Calhoun magistrate or from the bond court in that Orangeburg building. Phone the Old Belleville Road office, or the jail at 803-539-2091, and ask which judge has it and at what hour.

After bond is posted, jail staff get four hours, at most, to walk the person out (S.C. Code 22-5-510(B)).

Release on a signed promise is where South Carolina law begins. On any noncapital charge, a judge sends someone home on their word unless that seems too weak to bring them back or too risky for others (S.C. Code 17-15-10). The menu:

• Personal recognizance. A signature, no dollars down.
• Cash. Every dollar of the amount, paid in. S.C. Code 22-5-530 lets that cash sit with a magistrate or town judge instead of a promise.
• Surety. A licensed bondsman guarantees the whole figure in exchange for a premium.
• Ten percent. If permitted, a defendant deposits as much as a tenth, in cash, at the clerk's counter. Violent charges are excluded, as is a gun felony that arose during another bond (S.C. Code 17-15-15).
• GPS. An ankle monitor may replace money or ride along with it (S.C. Code 17-15-35).

Whatever the type, the person must appear in court, never leave the state, and behave (S.C. Code 17-15-20).

Calhoun judges set each figure case by case rather than reading off a chart. Under S.C. Code 17-15-30, a judge may weigh family, work, finances, character, years living locally, prior convictions and earlier skipped hearings. A judge must check open charges elsewhere, any bond already running, whether the state gang database lists them, and whether they are unlawfully present and likely to flee.

Out-of-pocket cost swings with the bond type. Take a $5,000 bond as a sample:

• Recognizance: $0 today.
• Cash: all $5,000.
• Ten percent, if allowed: $500 handed to the clerk.
• Bondsman: a premium no higher than $750, and never under $100.

Your real numbers come after the hearing. Call the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, at 803-539-2091 for them.

The Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center is part of what Orangeburg County calls its Law Complex, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118. Orangeburg County staff run it; the Calhoun Sheriff does not. Work through this list:

1. Phone 803-539-2091. Calhoun County's own directory gives 803-531-4658 as an alternative number.
2. Give the legal name and birthday, then request each charge with its bond.
3. Learn who collects this bond: jail desk, setting magistrate or clerk.
4. Ask which payment forms work there, and the payee spelling for any money order.
5. Carry government photo ID. Hang onto each receipt.

Four hours is the outside limit for release once that bond clears.

Some bonds are paid at a court office instead. Each window keeps its own bonds, so phone ahead:

• Clerk of Court, courthouse first floor, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524, Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. General Sessions bonds land here. Bench-warrant bonds out of Family Court are cash only, paid at this window.
• Old Belleville Road magistrate, 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112, weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Cameron magistrate office, 1313 Bridge Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-823-2266.
• Sandy Run magistrate, 1724 Old State Road Highway 176, Gaston, SC 29053, 803-794-4706, Mondays through Wednesdays 9:00 a.m. to noon, then 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Town charges may route through a town court. St. Matthews holds court at Town Hall, 606 F.R. Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2405. For a Cameron town case, ask the Cameron magistrate office above which court has it.

One rule is firm: a Family Court bench-warrant bond is cash only at the clerk. Every other office decides for itself what it takes, so ask whichever one holds your bond:

• Jail desk: Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, 803-539-2091.
• General Sessions bonds and 10% deposits: Clerk of Court, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.
• Cash posted with a magistrate: 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112.

Bring exact bills or a money order; both tend to go smoothly. Confirm the payee name before writing it in. That receipt is your refund ticket later, so file it somewhere safe. Mailing cash is never a good idea.

South Carolina's Department of Insurance licenses bondsmen and their runners. A bondsman writes a surety bond, which pledges the full amount to the court should your person vanish. You pay a premium for that pledge, and S.C. Code 38-53-170 caps it:

• Fifteen percent of the bond is the ceiling.
• The floor is $100 or 10% of the bond, whichever runs higher.
• Installment deals need at least $100 down; 18 months is the longest they may run.
• Drumming up business inside a courtroom, magistrate office or jail is banned.
• Steering you toward a certain attorney is banned too.

That premium pays the bondsman, so it stays spent. Look up a license on the NAIC license lookup. Bad behavior by a bondsman? Report it to the Department of Insurance, 1201 Main Street, Suite 1000, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-737-6160.

Each bond covers its own charge and nothing else. Watch for these:

• A second charge or outside warrant. It carries a separate bond.
• Automatic revocation. A fresh violent or gun felony charge, while bonded out on an earlier one, cancels that earlier bond by law. Circuit court must hear it inside 30 days (S.C. Code 17-15-55(C)).
• Probation or parole. Probation agents can file a hold. Calhoun's office for the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services is 120 Mill Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2537.
• Federal or immigration detainers. State bond leaves these in place.
• Charges reserved for circuit judges. Release waits on that judge's hearing.

Phone the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, at 803-539-2091 before paying, and have staff list each hold.

Most people accused in this state may be bailed, under South Carolina's constitution (S.C. Const. art. I, sec. 15). Exceptions: capital charges, charges carrying possible life sentences and the violent offenses lawmakers list. Even then the judge must weigh the proof first. Excessive bail is forbidden.

• Murder, or anything else punishable by death or life, is beyond a magistrate. Only a circuit judge sets that bond (S.C. Code 22-5-510(A)).
• On violent crimes named in S.C. Code 16-1-60, like armed robbery, a magistrate holds the choice to set bond or refuse it.
• A second violent crime, done while bonded on the first, is a separate felony. The penalty can reach five years (S.C. Code 17-15-270).

Arguing bond for the state is the 1st Circuit Solicitor, whose Calhoun office is 120 Mill Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-533-6258, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Probation shares that building. Nobody is jailed there.

Bond that a Calhoun magistrate or town judge placed on a General Sessions charge is reviewable by a circuit judge (S.C. Code 17-15-55). Release terms can also be reworked after notice and a hearing (S.C. Code 17-15-50).

1. Have defense counsel send a written motion to the Clerk of Court, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.
2. Collect pay stubs, a local lease or deed, names of relatives close by and an honest budget.
3. Propose terms a judge might like better, such as GPS or a no-contact order.

When a magistrate set the bond on a lesser charge, call 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112, and ask about returning before that judge.

Anyone too broke to hire counsel can get a lawyer appointed (S.C. Code 17-3-10). Applicants list income and assets under oath. A $40 application fee applies, though the clerk may shrink or waive it when paying is impossible (S.C. Code 17-3-30).

One circuit public defender covers Calhoun, Dorchester and Orangeburg. The state list puts Calhoun's office at 1452 B Boone Hill Road, Summerville, SC 29483, 843-821-9800. Phone there to start an application.

Oversight belongs to the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, 1330 Lady Street, Suite 401, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-734-1343.

Calhoun shares the 1st Judicial Circuit with Dorchester and Orangeburg (S.C. Code 14-5-610). Criminal cases from here go to these offices:

• Calhoun County Courthouse, home of General Sessions, Family Court and the Clerk of Court, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.
• Old Belleville Road magistrate, 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112.
• Cameron magistrate office, 1313 Bridge Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-823-2266.
• Sandy Run Magistrate, 1724 Old State Road Highway 176, Gaston, SC 29053, 803-794-4706.
• St. Matthews Municipal Court, Town Hall, 606 F.R. Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2405.
• Cameron Municipal Court: the Cameron magistrate office listed above can tell you if your case sits there.
• Federal court: 901 Richland Street, Columbia, SC 29201 (Matthew J. Perry, Jr. U.S. Courthouse), 803-765-5816.

Court-held cash is refunded to its payer when the Calhoun case wraps up with every date kept. Whoever paid asks the court for it (S.C. Code 17-15-220). Ten percent deposits come back when the bond terms are satisfied, less restitution a judge orders (S.C. Code 17-15-15).

Skipping court sets off trouble:

• A bench warrant goes out.
• Willfully missing court after felony release can bring five years and a $5,000 fine. If the misdemeanor itself carries a year or more, skipping court risks one year plus $1,000 (S.C. Code 17-15-90).
• Ninety days past that bench warrant, a surety bond is forfeited unless the bondsman has surrendered the person (S.C. Code 38-53-70).

Ask for a refund from whichever office holds the money. The Clerk of Court sits at 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.

Whatever was taken at booking, and any leftover account balance, stays at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118. Phone 803-539-2091 before the release day. Find out how a balance gets paid back and what hours the property room hands things over.

Pack your photo ID. Collecting for a friend? Ask staff if a signed authorization from that friend is required. Our inmate account money page walks through deposits and refunds in general.

Calhoun falls inside the Orangeburg Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. Those cases go to Columbia: 901 Richland Street, Columbia, SC 29201 (Matthew J. Perry, Jr. U.S. Courthouse), 803-765-5816.

• Detention gets decided at the first federal appearance. Defense lawyers may seek five extra days at most, prosecutors three (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Marshals oversee federal prisoners awaiting trial. Their Columbia office: U.S. Marshals Service, 901 Richland Street, Suite 1300, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-765-5821. Its staff can say which jail houses your person.
• Once sentenced, search the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

Paying a state bond won't lift an ICE hold. Step by step:

1. Immigration agents lodge Form I-247A on the Calhoun prisoner, asking the jail to keep them.
2. Under 8 CFR 287.7(d), the hold may last up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released.
3. Agents arrive within that window to take custody.
4. Track them through the ICE Online Detainee Locator; you need a full name plus birth country.

Under S.C. Code 23-3-1100, a status check through federal records must be finished within 72 hours for each prisoner booked on criminal charges. If someone turns out to be here unlawfully, Homeland Security must be told. A bond judge must also take unlawful presence and flight risk into account (S.C. Code 22-5-510(D)(4)). South Carolina's ICE office: 3950 Faber Place Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-746-9800.

Sentences of three months or shorter usually stay local (S.C. Code 24-3-30). For a Calhoun case, local means the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, 803-539-2091. Anything longer hands the person to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and SCDC chooses where they serve (S.C. Code 24-3-20).

• Each new state prisoner begins at reception and evaluation, SCDC's intake. Visiting rooms stay closed to them through that stage unless it lasts longer than 30 days.
• Search by name in the SCDC inmate search; its data runs one day behind, as of midnight.
• Main SCDC office: 4444 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC 29210, 803-896-8500.
• Browse our South Carolina state prisons directory for details on each prison.

Under 18 means Family Court in South Carolina. The big exception covers 17-year-olds facing serious felonies (Class A through D, or 15 years or more): adult court takes them (S.C. Code 63-19-20(1)).

• Past six hours, a teen held at an adult lockup must be moved. Children age ten and under can't be jailed at all (S.C. Code 63-19-820).
• Detention hearings come within 48 hours. That clock pauses on weekends and holidays (S.C. Code 63-19-830).
• Youth held before a hearing mostly go to the Juvenile Detention Complex of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, 1725 Shivers Road, Columbia, SC 29210, 803-896-9440 (visitation line).

DJJ's office serving Calhoun is 303 Summers Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29115, 803-533-6270; ask there where the teen is held. Family Court meets in the courthouse at 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.

South Carolina sorts a charge by how much punishment it can carry:

• Magistrate court (a summary court) tries charges with fines up to $500, jail up to 30 days, or both (S.C. Code 22-3-550). Calhoun has three magistrate offices. Bond hearings and preliminary hearings happen before magistrates too. A magistrate jury seats six people (S.C. Code 22-3-545).
• Municipal court in St. Matthews or Cameron handles town charges with the same $500 and 30-day ceiling (S.C. Code 14-25-65).
• Shoplifting of $2,000 or less can be tried in either summary court, with a fine as high as $1,000 (S.C. Code 16-13-110).
• Court of General Sessions, the criminal half of circuit court, takes felonies and the heavier misdemeanors. It sits in the county where the crime happened.
• Family Court takes most charges against anyone under 18.

Calhoun belongs to the 1st Judicial Circuit, shared with Dorchester and Orangeburg (S.C. Code 14-5-610). Its criminal courts:

• Calhoun County Courthouse, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524. General Sessions and Family Court meet here. The Clerk of Court is on the first floor, open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed on major holidays. Mail goes to P.O. Box 709, Saint Matthews, SC 29135. Jurors report to the second-floor courtroom.
• Old Belleville Road magistrate, 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112, weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Cameron magistrate office, 1313 Bridge Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-823-2266.
• Sandy Run Magistrate, 1724 Old State Road Highway 176, Gaston, SC 29053, 803-794-4706, Monday to Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Most other county departments use the Courthouse Annex, 102 Courthouse Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2435. Read your summons closely to see which building it names.

Both incorporated towns run a municipal court for charges written inside town limits:

• St. Matthews Municipal Court, Town Hall, 606 F.R. Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2405. Letters go to P.O. Box 172, Saint Matthews, SC 29135. The town's website links an online traffic ticket payment page, meant for tickets and not for bond.
• Cameron Municipal Court. Not sure which court has a Cameron case? Ask the magistrate's office at 803-823-2266.

Charges from outside the two towns go before one of the county's three magistrate offices instead.

A Calhoun bond hearing must take place no later than 24 hours after arrest, with a magistrate or town judge presiding (S.C. Code 22-5-510(B)). To learn which judge has it and when, call the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, 803-539-2091, or the magistrate at 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112. At that hearing:

• Charges get read aloud, and release is decided, frequently on nothing more than a signed promise.
• Officers who made the arrest give the court the criminal record, open charges, incident reports and any other bonds (S.C. Code 22-5-510(E)).
• A victim who wants to speak gets that chance. The hearing must be put off if the victim was not told in time (S.C. Code 16-3-1525).
• Anyone short on money for counsel should ask there about public defender forms.

Minor cases may go straight to a trial date in magistrate or town court. Felonies head toward General Sessions.

A summary court charge in Calhoun moves fast. Step one is a plea. Deny the charge and the magistrate or town judge sets a trial, decided by the judge alone or by a six-member jury on request. Typical penalties:

• Assault and battery in the third degree: as much as $500, 30 days, or both (S.C. Code 16-3-600(E)(2)).
• Shoplifting of $2,000 or less: up to $1,000, 30 days, or both (S.C. Code 16-13-110(B)).
• Misdemeanors tried in General Sessions run by class: Class A up to three years, Class B up to two, Class C up to one (S.C. Code 16-1-20).

The Solicitor decides who may enter a diversion program. Pretrial Intervention suits a first, nonviolent charge and ends in dismissal; fees are $100 to apply and $250 to take part, $350 at most, and can be waived (S.C. Code 17-22-110). Afterward the person may seek expungement (S.C. Code 17-22-150). For alcohol charges against people 17 through 20, the Alcohol Education Program is an option at a $250 fee (S.C. Code 17-22-550). A Traffic Education Program also exists for minor tickets.

Felony charges travel from a magistrate up to General Sessions at the courthouse, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524. Along the way:

1. Bond hearing, normally in front of a magistrate; charges reserved for circuit judges are the exception.
2. Preliminary hearing in magistrate court, if asked for in time. Deadline: 10 days after the bond hearing (Rule 2(a), SCRCrimP). A magistrate weighs whether the proof justifies sending it upward.
3. General Sessions. The Solicitor takes the case forward. The clerk can tell you which term week it lands in.
4. Plea or trial, then sentencing.

Felony maximums follow the class (S.C. Code 16-1-20). The cap drops five years with each letter, from 30 years at A to 5 years at F. Shoplifting worth more than $2,000 but less than $10,000 can bring five years; $10,000 or more can bring ten (S.C. Code 16-13-110(B)).

Only crimes written into S.C. Code 16-1-60 count as violent. Murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking and two grades of burglary (first and second degree) all appear there. Being on that list changes a case:

• Bond. If a charge could mean death or life, only a circuit judge may set bond (S.C. Code 22-5-510(A)). On other listed violent crimes, a magistrate can grant bond or deny it outright.
• Murder. A conviction means death or a prison term of at least 30 years, up to life (S.C. Code 16-3-20(A)).
• Diversion. Pretrial Intervention is off the table for violent crimes and for DUI (S.C. Code 17-22-50).
• A new charge during bond. Getting arrested for another violent or gun felony during bond on such a charge voids the first bond automatically. A circuit judge must take it up within 30 days (S.C. Code 17-15-55(C)).

The 1st Circuit Solicitor prosecutes General Sessions cases for Calhoun, Dorchester and Orangeburg. Its Calhoun office is 120 Mill Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-533-6258, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Calhoun County's directory gives 803-874-1978 as an alternative number. Its website is scsolicitor1.org. Probation shares that address; nobody is held there.

The circuit's public defender serves people who cannot afford counsel (S.C. Code 17-3-10). The state lists the Calhoun office at 1452 B Boone Hill Road, Summerville, SC 29483, 843-821-9800. Applying takes a sworn form about money and a $40 fee, reducible or waivable by the clerk (S.C. Code 17-3-30). Questions about the system go to the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, 1330 Lady Street, Suite 401, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-734-1343.

Search the Calhoun County Public Index on the South Carolina Judicial Branch site. A name or case number brings up the case record. Expect case details there, though jail location isn't part of it.

• General Sessions or Family Court dates: Clerk of Court, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.
• Magistrate dates: Old Belleville Road office, 2833 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-1112.
• Where the person is held: Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, 803-539-2091.

Write the case number down. Each office finds things faster with it.

Calhoun Sheriff's deputies carry out county arrest and bench warrants. Phone them at 2811 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2741, and ask for warrant information. Inside town limits, police may serve them too: St. Matthews police, P.O. Box 172, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2131, and Cameron police, P.O. Box 672, Cameron, SC 29030, 803-823-2145. Bench warrants from General Sessions or Family Court can be checked with the Clerk of Court, 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524. To clear one, surrender at the issuing court with defense counsel present, or call that court to arrange a new date. Fugitive pages: Probation, Parole and Pardon Services Most Wanted covers South Carolina. Nationwide fugitives: U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted.

Calhoun sits in the Orangeburg Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, and that division's cases are heard in Columbia: 901 Richland Street, Columbia, SC 29201 (Matthew J. Perry, Jr. U.S. Courthouse), 803-765-5816, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

• Detention gets argued as soon as the person first appears. Defense may delay it five days at most and prosecutors three (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Marshals keep federal defendants in custody pending trial. Columbia office: U.S. Marshals Service, 901 Richland Street, Suite 1300, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-765-5821.
• Post-sentence moves show on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

An immigration hold runs beside the criminal case, and bond on the state charge does not end it:

1. ICE lodges a detainer against the person, using Form I-247A.
2. Staff at the jail can then hold the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE agents come for the person inside that window.
4. Families then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator with a full name and birth country.

On the state side, S.C. Code 23-3-1100 requires a federal records check within 72 hours for everyone jailed on criminal charges. A jail that finds someone unlawfully present notifies Homeland Security. Bond decisions must also account for unlawful presence and flight risk (S.C. Code 22-5-510(D)(4)). Agency contact in this state: ICE, 3950 Faber Place Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-746-9800.

Terms of three months or shorter are usually served locally (S.C. Code 24-3-30); for Calhoun, locally means the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center, 1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118, 803-539-2091. A longer term goes to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and SCDC picks the prison (S.C. Code 24-3-20).

• Reception and evaluation come first for every new SCDC prisoner. During that stage relatives get no in-person visits, unless it runs longer than 30 days.
• Use the SCDC inmate search once the move happens; county prisoners won't appear in it.
• Corrections headquarters: 4444 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC 29210, 803-896-8500.
• Our South Carolina state prisons page lists each prison.

Supervision after release runs through the Calhoun probation office, 120 Mill Street, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2537.

A child in South Carolina is anyone under 18, and their cases belong to Family Court. Exception: 17-year-olds go to adult court on Class A to D felonies or felonies worth 15-plus years (S.C. Code 63-19-20(1)). Calhoun's Family Court shares the courthouse at 902 FR Huff Drive, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-3524.

• The detention hearing arrives within 48 hours, leaving Saturdays, Sundays and holidays off the tally (S.C. Code 63-19-830).
• Fourteen-, fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds accused of the most serious felonies may be bound over to General Sessions following a hearing (S.C. Code 63-19-1210).
• Youth held before a hearing usually go to the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice's Juvenile Detention Complex, 1725 Shivers Road, Columbia, SC 29210, 803-896-9440 (visitation line).

DJJ's office for Calhoun and Orangeburg is 303 Summers Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29115, 803-533-6270.

Victims hold rights under South Carolina's constitution (S.C. Const. art. I, sec. 24). Bond hearings must be disclosed to them, and they may address the judge there. Any arrest, release or escape of the accused must be reported to them. Conferring with the prosecutor and seeking restitution are rights too. Police owe victims a fair try at notice, both when an arrest happens and before the bond hearing, early enough to show up (S.C. Code 16-3-1525).

• The Calhoun Sheriff's Office has a victim assistance unit: 2811 Old Belleville Road, Saint Matthews, SC 29135, 803-874-2741.
• SC VINE custody alerts are free, offered in both English and Spanish. Use VINELink South Carolina online, or dial 866-727-2846.
• Advocates at the state Attorney General's office: 1000 Assembly Street, Room 519, Columbia, SC 29201, 803-737-3739.

Never call, text or pass notes to the victim on the accused's behalf; doing so can violate bond terms.