Larry D Smith Correctional Facility Banning
Larry D Smith Correctional Facility
Located in the city of Banning, the Smith Correctional Facility is the Department’s largest correctional facility. The facility holds inmates as they await arraignment, hearings, trials, and sentencing, as well as inmates who have been sentenced to serve a county jail sentence. The facility is also home to several Corrections Division programs such as the Supervised Electronic Confinement Program, Work Release Program, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program, Sheriff’s Inmate Training and Education Bureau, a commercial printing shop, centralized warehouse and laundry services, as well as other counseling, vocational, and educational programs. The facility is under the command of a Sheriff’s Captain and is administered under the direction of the Corrections Division Chief Deputy.
There are five jails, or correctional facilities, in Riverside County, all managed by the Sheriff’s Department Corrections Division, one of the largest jail operations in the state and throughout the country. Rules at the jail facilities are strictly enforced to protect visitors, corrections staff and inmates.
Each jail has unique rules and you should carefully review the requirements and restrictions listed at the right before visiting the jail or sending mail or money to an inmate.
Visiting Instructions
- Visiting at the Banning Jail is by appointment only. Visitors must call the day before the requested visiting day to set an appointment.
- You will need to provide the inmate’s name and booking number. Please have this information before calling to make a reservation. Please use the Find Booking Number link to look up an inmate’s housing assignment.
- Inmates may have 2 visits in a seven-day visiting period; the seven days begin on the first physical visit. One visit per day on the day scheduled for their assigned housing location. (See below for Housing Unit Visiting Schedule.)
- Two people are allowed to visit with each inmate; children and infants are counted.
- Effective December 11, 2011 visitor check-in begins 60 minutes before the visit start time and ends 20 minutes before the visit start time. Plan ahead and arrive early, since visitors who arrive during the 20 minutes before the hour will not be allowed to visit.
- Parking is available in the parking lot west of the main gate. Handicapped parking is available.
Mailing Instructions
Address:
(Include Inmate Name & Booking Number)
Smith Correctional Facility
1627 S. Hargrave Street
Banning, CA 92220
All inmate mail must have:
- Sender’s complete name and return address (no AKA’s, nicknames, monikers).
- Inmate’s complete first and last name under which he or she is booked.
- Complete and correct booking number.
- Mail with no return address will be placed in the inmate’s property.
- Stick-on return address labels are not allowed.
- To ensure delivery to the correct inmate, inmate’s name and booking number must match in our system.
- Booking numbers that are missing, incomplete or incorrect will be returned to the sender.
- Any mail that is dirty or stained will be considered contaminated and returned to the sender.
- Mail that contains any of the following will be rejected.