The Reception and Medical Center West Unit in Union County serves the city of Lake Butler and other smaller towns in Union. Reception and Medical Center West Unit is one of several Close, Medium, Minimum, Community prisons in the State. To visit an inmate at Reception and Medical Center West Unit, you’ll need to travel to Lake Butler, FL, 32054-5645 in Union. The address is 8183 SW 152nd Loop. It’s important to verify the location of your inmate before traveling.

Prisons in FL like Reception and Medical Center West Unit can often make it difficult and costly for inmates to call the outside. Some prisons charge over $10 a minute to make a long distance phone call. The best way to avoid these fees is to set up a local phone number that will ring your phone number(s) no matter where you live. Securtel.us provides this service and you can reach them at inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit send postcards. Talk with your inmate to learn about the permitted hours for phone calls, rules for sending mail and days and times for visitation, Facilities in FL all have different rules that you’ll be required to follow.

Reception and Medical Center West Unit is a State Prison. It’s important to know the type of prison facility because this will largely determine what is permitted. Everything in prison costs money. Soap, toothpaste, phone calls and stamps and envelopes must all be purchased at the commissary. Step one is to get set up with phone service so you can communicate. Then you can learn what an inmate needs and how to properly send it.

Reception and Medical Center West Unit is in the EST time zone. So make adjustments in your call times if you aren’t in that same timezone. The warden at Reception and Medical Center West Unit is Warden Steve Wellhausen. The warden may or may not be available to talk to. This will depend on the size of the facility. The current capacity of Reception and Medical Center West Unit is 874. The total capacity of Reception and Medical Center West Unit is 1148. This can give you an indication of what living conditions are like at Reception and Medical Center West Unit. It’s important for prison families to help each other to help their loved ones inside and out. By sharing information about Reception and Medical Center West Unit with other families, it will help them avoid mistakes and confusion that no one needs or wants.
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