About Cocke County Jail

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The Cocke County Jail is situated in Newport, Tennessee.

The Cocke County Jail is a medium-security facility that is operated under the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office. The Cocke County Jail houses both adult male and adult female offenders. These offenders have been arrested in and around Cocke County and brought to the Cocke County Jail for booking and processing.

The Cocke County Jail wants to ensure that they provide not only the inmates and staff members, but the visitors to a safe and secure environment when entering the facility. The Cocke County Jail ensures that their operation is as effectively and efficiently as it can be.

The main mission here at the Cocke County Jail is to put the inmates to work, so they are not sitting idle. Inmates will work in the kitchen, laundry room, or the facility sanitation area.

Inmate Search

Most county jails throughout the United States started making their inmate rosters public. As of 2019, the Cocke County Jail has yet to make their inmate roster public.

If you need information about an inmate serving time at the Cocke County Jail, you will need to contact the jail with the name of the inmate in question.

However, with the county jails actively making their inmate rosters public, it is best to keep an eye on the jail page located on the Cocke County Tennessee official website to see if/when they will make theirs public for you to search on your own time.

Sending a Mail/Care Package

What is better than getting a handwritten letter while in the Cocke County Jail? Exactly, nothing. Inmates love getting letters while they are locked away. Letters are many of the inmate’s reasons to keep going day in and day out.

Inmates can receive written letters. All incoming and outgoing mail will be inspected by the Cocke County Jail staff to ensure it is contraband free for the safety of everyone involved.

Sending Money

While an inmate is in the Cocke County Jail, you may not think they need money, but that thought is completely wrong. Inmates in the Cocke County Jail will in fact need money.

Most of the time inmates will need money to purchase things from the commissary in the Cocke County Jail. The Cocke County Jail commissary is their store. In the commissary the inmates will be able to purchase some of the following items:

• Personal Hygiene Products

• Snacks

• Beverages

• Clothing

• Entertainment Items

You can send a money order to the Cocke County Jail. You will need to make it out to the facility along with having the inmates name on it.

Phone calls

The Cocke County Jail contracts with inmatesales.com for their phone needs. This service will require you to put money on the inmate’s phone account. You will need to create an account. You can create an account on the above website.

Inmates will also have the chance to make collect calls as well. Collect calls will also cost money, but they will be billed to the receiver of the call. The Cocke County Jail and the inmate are not responsible for any fees that come with the call.

Visitation

Looking to visit an inmate here at the Cocke County Jail? You will need to get in contact with the Cocke County Jail prior to coming on down to visit them.

The personnel will be able to give you the break down on when they accept visitors, what you will need to bring, and what you cannot bring while visiting an inmate

Typically, you will not be permitted to bring anything into the visitation area except your key to your car and your identification card such as your driver’s license.

Visiting Hours

Monday — 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday — 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday — 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Thursday — 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Friday — 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Saturday — 7:30 Am to 2:30 PM
Sunday — 7:30 Am to 2:30 PM

Directions

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