Broome runs two separate visiting schedules and the one covering women, medical and restricted housing is about a quarter the size of the general one. Connect with your loved one in minutes.
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Broome County abolished visiting appointments in January 2023 and handed the scheduling to the people inside the jail. There is no family booking line and no web form. What there is instead is a published grid of windows, a two hour weekly allowance, and a cap on how many people can be in the room at once. Which grid applies to you depends on where your person is housed.
| Day | Windows |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8:30 to 11:30 AM, 1:00 to 2:30 PM, 6:00 to 10:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 6:00 to 10:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 1:00 to 2:30 PM, 6:00 to 8:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 to 11:30 AM, 1:00 to 2:30 PM, 6:00 to 10:00 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 to 11:30 AM, 1:00 to 2:30 PM, 6:00 to 10:00 PM |
Roughly 33 hours of window across the week. The long evening blocks are the real capacity here, and they are also where the ten visitor daytime cap stops applying.
This is the part families do not expect, and it is the most important thing on this page.
I/Max-Female, Special Housing, and D-Pod, Restricted and Medical share a completely different grid:
| Day | Windows |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 8:30 to 11:30 AM, 1:00 to 2:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 to 11:30, and 9:00 to 10:00 PM |
That is about 8 hours against roughly 33. If you are visiting a woman at this jail, you have Tuesday and Wednesday. Not five days. The same applies to anyone in medical, restricted or special housing, whatever their gender.
Two notes on that grid. The Wednesday morning window is published by the county without stating morning or afternoon, which is an error on their page rather than in this guide, so confirm that one before you travel. And the 9:00 to 10:00 PM Wednesday slot is a genuinely unusual hour that is easy to miss and useful if you work days.
The allowance is up to two hours of contact visiting per week. Sessions run a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of two hours.
The constraint that catches people: the time cannot be split across different days. An hour on Monday and an hour on Thursday is not how it works. You take your weekly allowance in one visit.
Disciplinary offences inside can cost up to an hour of that weekly allowance, so a shorter visit than expected is not always a scheduling problem.
Between 8:00 AM and 2:30 PM, the county caps the visiting area at ten adult visitors at any one time. It is first come, first served.
There is no appointment to protect your place, which is the trade-off for a system with no booking. On a busy weekday morning that cap is a real risk, and the evening windows are the answer if your schedule allows one.
Outside that daytime band, the cap is not published as applying.
The county states it plainly: it is the responsibility of each incarcerated person to set up their own visiting times.
There is no family reservation line. There is no online form. The practical consequence is that the conversation about when you are coming happens on a call or in a letter, before you travel, and if that conversation has not happened you are arriving on a window your person may not have claimed.
If you need to reach the jail about visiting specifically, 607-778-6142 is the visitation number. It is not a booking line.
Broome offers video visiting, but it works backwards from what most families expect: it is purchased by the incarcerated person through the tablet system, not booked by the visitor.
Rates are set by the tablet provider rather than the county, and the county does not publish them.
The county publishes the visiting schedule itself, but not visitor ID requirements, a dress code, rules for visitors under 18, a visitor limit, prohibited items, or parking guidance. 607-778-6142 is the number to call before a first visit, particularly about bringing a child.
An older county web address still serves a 2023 copy of this schedule. It shows afternoon slots that no longer exist, a different visit allowance of one hour twice a week, no ten visitor cap, and superseded vendor names for money and photos.
The live schedule is the one above. If a page you land on shows 3:30 to 4:30 PM slots, you are reading the stale copy.
6 of 9 questions
No. Appointments were abolished in January 2023 and no family booking line replaced them. You arrive during a published window. The catch is that the incarcerated person is the one responsible for setting up their visiting times, so that arrangement should happen before you travel.
VisitationMonday, Thursday and Friday run 8:30 to 11:30 AM, 1:00 to 2:30 PM and 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Tuesday is evenings only, 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Wednesday runs 1:00 to 2:30 PM and 6:00 to 8:30 PM. The jail is closed for visiting on Saturdays, Sundays and county holidays.
VisitationYes, substantially. The I/Max-Female track shares a schedule with Special Housing, D-Pod, Restricted and Medical, and that schedule runs Tuesday and Wednesday only, roughly 8 hours a week against about 33 for general housing. It is the single biggest difference on this page and few families know it before they arrive.
VisitationUp to two hours a week in total, in a session of no less than 30 minutes and no more than two hours. The time cannot be split across two days, so it is one visit rather than two shorter ones. Disciplinary offences can remove up to an hour of the weekly allowance.
VisitationYes, on numbers. Between 8:00 AM and 2:30 PM the visiting area holds ten adult visitors at a time, first come first served, with no booking to hold your place. The evening windows are the way around it on a busy day.
VisitationBroome County does not publish one. We checked the corrections page, the Sheriff's landing page, the full navigation and a site-wide search, and no dress code, ID requirement or prohibited items list exists on the county site. Call 607-778-6142 before a first visit rather than relying on a directory site's version.
VisitationThe county publishes no rules for visitors under 18, which is unusual and means we cannot tell you what documents to bring. That is a question for 607-778-6142 before you travel, because turning up with a child and the wrong paperwork is a wasted trip.
VisitationThey run the opposite way round from most jails. The incarcerated person buys them through the tablet system rather than the visitor booking a session. Rates are set by the tablet provider, and the county does not publish them.
VisitationAn older county web address still serves a 2023 version of the page, with afternoon slots that no longer exist and a one hour twice weekly allowance that has been replaced. The schedule on this page comes from the current county page. If what you are reading shows 3:30 to 4:30 PM slots, it is the stale copy.
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