TYLER — Smith County will soon, once again allow in-person visits to inmates inside the Smith County Jail. According to our news partner KETK, in-house visits stopped during the pandemic, but that’s expected to change April 21. Visitation sign-up begins that morning at 11 a.m. at the North Jail, with up to six people allowed in the building at a time. Once people are registered, a visit of up to 20-minutes will be held once an hour. Visitation is a first-come-first-serve basis and visitors will be turned away once full. The entire visitation area will be cleaned and sanitized after each visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — Smith County will soon, once again allow in-person visits to inmates inside the Smith County Jail. According to our news partner KETK, in-house visits stopped during the pandemic, but that’s expected to change April 21. Visitation sign-up begins that morning at 11 a.m. at the North Jail, with up to six people allowed … Continue reading Smith county unveils plans to re-open in-person inmate visitation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":998203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Jail-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith county unveils plans to re-open in-person inmate visitation","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 03:51:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Jail-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith county unveils plans to re-open in-person inmate visitation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998900,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998187\/revisions\/998900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/998203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}