Visiting Hudson Correctional Facility

Every Weekend Is Open, One Visit a Week

Weekend and Holiday visits are open to all incarcerated individuals.

No group to work out. The limit is how often: NYSDOCCS publishes a maximum of one visit per day and one visit per week. If two sets of family want to see the same person, they need different weeks, or to come together.

Weekday Holidays

Under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Hudson is one of the prisons that takes visits on weekday holidays.

Hours, and the Three-Hour Minimum

Visits run 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and the latest you can arrive is 2:30 PM.

Hudson publishes a guarantee most prisons do not: visits will be a minimum of three hours. And any visitor who arrives on a contracted bus company will not be cut short, whatever time they arrive.

Special Housing

Anyone in the Special Housing Unit at Hudson is allowed one non-legal visit within a seven-day period, during normal visiting hours.

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.

Visitors who have not seen the person in six months are given special consideration.

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 arrival 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 Hudson

The prison is at 50 East Court Street in the city of Hudson, Columbia County, on the Hudson River.

From	Approximate journey
Albany	About forty five minutes
Kingston	About forty minutes
New York City	About two and a quarter hours

Make sure you are heading to Hudson, New York. The Hudson County jail is in Kearny, New Jersey, and a facility called Hudson Correctional Facility exists in Colorado. Neither is this prison.

The free state visitor bus does not serve Hudson, but NYSDOCCS protects visitors who come on a contracted bus company from having their visit ended early.

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.

Between the Weekly Visits

One visit a week leaves six days in between.

Calls from every New York state prison have been free since August 2025, and letters and photographs fill the rest. Pigeonly sends both from your phone, addressed to P.O. Box 576 in Hudson, so the week in between is not a silent one.