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Updated on: March 6, 2024

Ventress Correctional Facility, Barbour County, State Prison

Adult

Highway 239 North, Clayton, AL, 36016

Alabama

http://www.doc.alabama.gov/facility.aspx?loc=38

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Ventress Correctional Facility, located in Clayton Alabama, is a minimum- security prison that can house 1650 sentenced male inmates. The prison also includes three death row units.

All inmates are required to participate in substance abuse treatment and academic programs. The residential substance abuse treatment program with parenting programs that give inmates a chance to participate in activities such as reading and play groups with their children.

Educational opportunities at Ventress Correctional Facility include the chance for inmates to earn a GED. Earning an associate’s degree is also an option. Work programs include the ability for inmates to work in the cafeteria, landscaping, janitorial, maintenance, and with heavy equipment. Working empowers the inmates by giving them new skills and helping them establish good work habits.

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Sending a Mail/Care Package

Inmates may receive only metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4" x 6" as mail. Writing must be in pencil or blue or black ink. Any other mail will be returned to the sender.

Inmate mail cannot contain any information on describing the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape that realistically are a danger to jail security or advocate violence, racial supremacy or nudity. No current inmate-to-inmate mail is allowed and will be destroyed.

To send mail to an inmate at Ventress Correctional Facility, address your envelope as follows:

Inmate Name, ID Number
?Ventress Correctional Facility
Highway 239 North, Clayton, AL, 36016

You can also send magazines or books to your inmate, but they must come directly from the publisher. You are not allowed to send single magazines in an envelope.

Sending Money

If you are on an inmate's approved correspondence/visiting list you can send funds to an inmate through the mail. All funds must come in the form of a Cashier's Check made payable to "Ventress Correctional Facility" and have the inmate's name and ID number in the memo. The sender's complete name and address must also be listed somewhere on the check.

The maximum amount that an inmate can receive each month is $200. You can also drop a cashier’s check off at the facility.

Phone calls

Every inmate in the Ventress Correctional Facility has the privilege to talk to friends and family on the phone. Inmate phone calls are provided by Global Tel Link (GTL) which allows calls to landline and wireless cell phones. Payment options include collect, prepaid, and debit.

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Visitation

Inmates at Ventress Correctional Facility are allowed a one hour visitation per weekend. Inmates are allowed to have up to three visitors at a time. All visitors must submit a visitor’s application and be approved prior to visiting. The general population has visiting on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30am to 1:30pm.

You will be searched before visiting an inmate, and no personal belongings are allowed in this facility. Persons under probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate's extended family.

Visiting Hours

Saturday: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Directions

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