Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail Remote Inmate Video Visits

Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail

Address:
2115 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Ft. Meyers, FL 33901
Phone:
239-477-1700

Schedule a Video Visit with an Inmate at the Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail

Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail understands the importance of keeping inmates connected with their families and friends. Positive relationships with loved ones can help inmates successfully transition back into society and reduce the risk of reoffending.

Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail offers (or will soon offer) remote video visitation, where loved ones can connect with inmates using video kiosks or tablets through a third-party service.

Advantages of video visitation include:

• Improves inmate well-being.
• Keeps inmates in touch with their loved ones, including children.
• Saves the facility time and money by reducing staff involvement.
• Brings additional revenue to the facility.
• Prevents the spread of viruses during in-person visits.
• Reduces the risk of contraband entering the facility.

For more information on video visits, contact Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail at 239-477-1700, or scroll down for more details and FAQs.

Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail Inmate Visitation Schedule

ATTENTION: Visits for all Lee County jail facilities (Main Jail, Core and CPU’s) take place at the Lee County Inmate Visitation Center, located at the Ortiz facility:
2501 Ortiz Ave
Fort Myers, FL 33905
239-258-3773

• First, you MUST register with GTL/ViaPath and schedule your visit in advance.
  
• All Visits are conducted through a video monitor.
• Each inmate is allowed two(2) one-hour visits per week.
• Plan on arriving and checking in at least 15 minutes before your scheduled visit.
• Inmates are allowed up to five people (family & friends) on their Visitor List. Updates are allowed once every four months.
• No more than two visitors from the Inmate's Authorized Visitor List will be allowed per visit (children under one year are not included in that count).
• You must arrive with a valid, government issued photo ID, as does any visitor older than 16 years of age.
• Attorneys & Clergy Visits are treated differently. They aren't on the inmates list and they don't require appointments.

Frequently Asked Questions about Remote Video Visits

What is a video visit, and how do they work?

Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?

What is a video visit, and how do they work?

Video visitation, also known as remote visitation, is quickly becoming the preferred method for visiting an inmate in jail or prison for the following reasons:

•    It requires little to no staff, versus the staff required to move inmates to and from the visit and watch over the visit. It saves the Lee County Maximum Security Downtown Jail money.
•    It removes any opportunity for contraband (drugs) to enter the facility.
•    It can become a profit center for the facility, given that the revenue generated by visits is shared with the jail.
•    While inmates prefer to see family and friends in person, video visitation allows them to visit with them more often, and on a whim.
•    Video visitation gives the inmates and their visitors the feeling of more privacy.

Video visitation from the perspective of the visitor allows them to visit from their home, their car, at work, and even allows them to take their device to a family or religious gathering. It allows them to give their inmate the feeling of belonging and not being forgotten.

Video visitation can take place on a computer, a tablet or a phone. 

Video visitation saves time. Instead of spending hours driving to the jail, checking in, filling out paperwork, potentially being searched, waiting, and then having a 15–30-minute visit, if it isn’t cancelled at the last minute, the visit can be done from anywhere during a short break in the visitor’s day.

If the visitor does not have access to a phone or computer, they can make an appointment ahead of time and use terminals in the lobby of the jail.

You must also be on the inmate's approved list, even for a video visit.

Who are the companies that facilitate video visits?

There are several different companies that contract with all the jails and prisons that allow video visitation:

These are the companies in alphabetical order:

CIDNET
City Tele Coin
Correct Solutions Group
Correct Pay
Ctel
Gettingout
GTL
Homewav
IC Solutions
Inmate Canteen
Inmate Sales
iwebvisits
JailATM
Jpay
Gettingintouch (netvisit)
NCIC
Prodigy Sales
Reliance
Securus
Smart Communications
Tiger Services
Visitel
In addition, some jails use Microsoft Meeting and Zoom.