County Jail
Pinellas County Jail (hereinafter PCJ) has a capacity of 4,339 beds. The average daily population is a little over 3,000 inmates that are either pre-trial or inmates sentenced to a year or less. Inmates sentenced to state prison are picked up by the DOC usually between 1 and 2 weeks after sentencing. Over 500 inmates provide Inmate Labor services to the community and while on the jail compound. The labor saves taxpayers $16 million.
PCJ houses inmates based on factors such as crimes, record, behavior and security. The jail has four facilities: The North, South, Health and Central divisions. The south division is the maximum security unit. It comprises six pods: Alpha, Delta, Bravo, Echo, Charlie, and F-wing. The health division is usually for injured and sick inmates. The central division is a minimum security unit that uses a number system of the floor number plus a pod number. North division holds various types of inmates and also runs a lettered system. Each lettered barrack holds different kinds of inmates: A barrack holds women that are both sentence and non-sentenced, B barrack holds males charged or convicted of misdemeanors and C holds non-sentenced men for felonies, and F holds women felons.
Visitation is done via a phone and TV monitor. Contact visits are not allowed. Visitation must be schedule based on the inmate's assigned visitation day.
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