Visiting Attica Correctional Facility

Every Visiting Day Goes by Last Name

The Attica calendar says:

Visitation days list the first letter of the last name of incarcerated individuals scheduled.

Each Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday is marked A-K or L-Z. It is the incarcerated person’s last name that counts, not yours, so everyone visiting the same person shares the same days.

That makes Attica different from most prisons that open on Wednesdays. There, Wednesday is usually open to everyone. At Attica it is split like the weekend.

Reading the Calendar

Saturday and Sunday usually go to different groups, and the Wednesday in between goes to one of them. Which group gets which day changes from week to week, so read your days off the dated calendar on the NYSDOCCS Attica page before you travel.

No Weekday Holidays

Under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Attica is one of the prisons where weekday holiday visiting stays suspended. A holiday that falls on a weekend keeps its A-K or L-Z label on the calendar.

Hours, and the 2:00 PM Line

Visits run 8:45 AM to 3:00 PM. The latest you can arrive is 2:00 PM. Attica allows up to two split visits a day.

Special Housing

Anyone in the Special Housing Unit at Attica is allowed one non-legal visit within a seven-day period, between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM.

When the Room Is Full

If space runs short, NYSDOCCS ends visits in a published order:

1. Visitors who volunteer to leave.
2. Local visitors, from within 100 miles, after three hours.
3. Visitors from further away, after three hours.

Three Visitors, and the Under Fives

Three visitors at a time, plus one child under the age of five, who does not count toward the three.

A child of five or older does count, so three adults and a six year old is a group of four and will not fit.

How a Visit Is Arranged

Nothing needs booking for a regular visit. Under NYSDOCCS rules you can visit during visiting hours with proper photo identification, as long as the person inside agrees to the visit.

On a first visit, staff take your photograph for the visitor identification system and you sign a statement agreeing to the visiting rules. Leave time for it before the 2:00 PM cutoff.

Some visitors need advance written approval: people on probation or parole, NYSDOCCS staff, volunteers, contract workers, and anyone with past or pending criminal cases.

Children are straightforward. Their own children can visit without written permission where the parent’s name is on the birth certificate. A child under eighteen visiting without a parent or guardian needs the parent’s written permission.

Getting to Exchange Street, Not Dunbar Road

Attica is at 639 Exchange Street in the town of Attica, Wyoming County.

From	Approximate journey
Batavia	About twenty minutes
Buffalo	About fifty minutes
Rochester	About an hour and a quarter
New York City	About six hours

Wyoming Correctional Facility, a medium security prison, is in the same town at 3203 Dunbar Road, with its own visiting rules. Check which prison you are visiting before you set off.

The free state visitor bus serves Attica.

What to Bring

Photo identification for everyone over sixteen, and the visit does not proceed without it.

Phones, bags and electronics stay in the car.

If you are bringing money, the visitor lockbox takes $50 in cash a day in total, however many of you are visiting, and it takes money orders and checks as well.

On the Days That Are Not Yours

Half the visiting days in any week belong to the other half of the alphabet.

Calls from every New York state prison have been free since August 2025, and letters and photographs land on the days you cannot come. Pigeonly sends both from your phone, addressed to 639 Exchange Street with the full ZIP, so the days in between are not silent ones.