Visiting Coxsackie Correctional Facility

Days, Hours and the 2:00 PM Edge

	Detail
Days	Weekends and Wednesdays
Hours	9:00 AM to 3:15 PM
Latest arrival	2:00 PM
Visits per day	Two
Visitors per visit	3 adults plus 1 child under 5 on a lap
Effective	05/04/2026

The 2:00 PM cutoff is the hard edge. The room stays open until 3:15, but arriving at 2:15 means no visit.

Wednesday Visiting Is New, and It Is the Easy Day

Worth stating plainly because older information will not carry it.

Wednesdays do not appear anywhere in Coxsackie’s 2026 schedule before late April. The first Wednesday entry is April 29, 2026, and they run continuously from May onward, matching the May 4 effective date.

And Wednesdays work differently from weekends. Weekend dates alternate by surname. Wednesdays are marked open to everyone, whatever letter your person’s last name starts with.

For a family whose weekend letter falls awkwardly, or who cannot travel at a weekend, Wednesday removes the surname problem entirely. It is the single most useful thing on this page.

The Surname Split on Weekends

Weekend dates alternate between A to L and M to Z, by the first letter of the incarcerated person’s last name.

The whole year is published in the facility’s visiting schedule, and DOCCS revises these in place. The current version is marked 04/2026. A copy saved earlier in the year is already out of date, which is exactly how the Wednesday change would be missed.

Check the current schedule against the surname before every trip. The pattern does not repeat predictably from month to month.

Two Visits a Day

Coxsackie publishes a maximum of two visits per day, which is more than its neighbours allow.

Prison	Visits per day
Coxsackie	Two
Green Haven	One
Auburn	No published cap

That matters for a family travelling a distance: two separate visits in one trip is possible here, subject to the room having space.

Special Housing, and an Undefined Week

One non-legal visit per seven day period, during normal visiting hours.

Coxsackie states the period without defining when it starts, unlike Green Haven, which runs a fixed Friday to Thursday week, and Auburn, which runs it rolling from the end of the last visit. Ask the facility on 518-731-2781 how the week is counted here rather than assuming either neighbour’s rule.

Nobody Applies to Visit in New York

The state runs no visitor application, no approved-visitor list and no background check on visitors. DOCCS’s own position is that with little exception anyone may visit during visiting hours, with proper identification, if the person being visited agrees.

The one form that exists statewide is Form 4932A, and it is not an application to visit. It is the medical exemption from the body scanner, filed in advance with DOCCS Central Office Health Services in Albany, and an approval covers every facility in the state.

Scanning, and What Declining Costs Here

Every visitor passes a body image scanner before a contact visit, statewide under Directive 4403.

Declining does not end the visit. It reduces it:

• Non-contact, through a barrier
• Two visitors rather than three
• Two hours rather than the full window
• No embrace at any point

When the Room Fills Up

Coxsackie publishes the overcrowding procedure, in this order:

1. Staff ask for volunteers to end their visit early.
2. Visitors living within 100 miles are ended after three hours, earliest arrivals first.
3. Visitors who travelled more than 100 miles are ended after three hours, earliest arrivals first.

Visits with special permission, and visits to someone who has not had one in six months, get particular consideration from the Superintendent or Officer of the Day before anyone is asked to leave.

A family driving up from New York City or across from Massachusetts sits in the protected second tier.

Do Not Use Greene’s Schedule

The other DOCCS prison in this town is Greene Correctional Facility, medium security, at 165 Plank Road, on 518-731-2741.

Greene visits weekends and holidays only, splits by the last digit of the DIN rather than by surname, and runs a Saturday evening window for its restricted units. None of that applies at Coxsackie. Confirm the facility name in the lookup before working from any schedule. Greene’s own rules are in our Greene visiting guide.

Extended Family Visiting Is Not Available Here

Coxsackie does not appear on the DOCCS Family Reunion Program facility list.

Auburn and Green Haven both do. If extended private family visits matter, that is a fact worth knowing before a transfer request rather than after one. The programme is governed by Directive 4500.

Driving to Greene County

11260 Route 9W, Coxsackie, NY 12051, in Greene County on the west bank of the Hudson, roughly thirty miles south of Albany.

DOCCS publishes a single Google Maps link for directions and nothing else, no written route, no parking guidance and no information about a visitor hospitality centre.

On buses, DOCCS publishes a disclaimer rather than a service: privately operated lines run to many prisons, seats must be reserved in advance, and the department names no companies and accepts no responsibility for them. A free roundtrip visitor bus, run in partnership with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, serves 18 New York prisons, and Coxsackie is not one of them.

Visiting Details Coxsackie Omits

• How the seven day Special Housing Unit period is counted.
• Whether Wednesday visiting has the same 2:00 PM cutoff as the weekend, though nothing suggests otherwise.
• Parking, lockers, vending or a children’s area at this facility.
• Whether a visitor hospitality centre operates on site.
• Holiday arrangements. The schedule marks holidays but the visiting days line names only weekends and Wednesdays.

Four Questions Before You Travel

1. What does this month’s schedule say for our surname?
2. Is a Wednesday easier for us than waiting for our weekend letter?
3. Is my person in the Special Housing Unit, and how is the week counted?
4. Where do I leave my phone and keys?