Nassau County Correctional Center Visiting Rules

Find the Building First

This is the step that decides everything else, and it is easy to skip.

Building	Visiting days
B building and D building	Monday, Wednesday and Friday
E building	Tuesday and Thursday

The county’s rule is that people only receive visits in the building where they are housed, and any other request is denied. So the housing assignment, which nobody consults you about, sets your visiting days.

Visiting is closed on all county holidays.

If you do not know the building, the Inmate Records line on 516-572-3802 is the place to ask before you book anything.

Booking, Because Arriving Is Not Enough

Nassau states it plainly: walk-in visits are not permitted. The only exception is attorneys, who may visit either by pre-scheduling or by walking in.

Everything else runs through the county’s own scheduler, which is worth stressing because most jails outsource this. Nassau operates it directly, and it needs an account with an email address and password, with the email verified before you can book.

The booking window has both ends fixed:

• Requests must be made at least 24 hours in advance.
• No more than 5 days in advance.
• Same day requests may be denied.

All visitors are subject to criminal background checks.

There Is No Visitor Application

Worth being precise, because families ask for a form that does not exist. Nassau has no general visitor application. Registration is the scheduler account itself, and there is no separate approved-visitor list to join first.

The only form the county publishes is narrow: a Visitor Requesting Accommodations form, for visitors who cannot clear the metal detector for medical reasons. Your physician completes and signs it, and it is emailed to [email protected]. The county says you will hear back on the request within 48 hours.

Five Sessions, and the Door That Closes Early

Each visiting day has five sessions, and the times differ between the first half of the week and the second.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday sessions start at: 8:15 AM, 9:30 AM, 12:00 PM, 1:15 PM and 2:30 PM.

Thursday and Friday sessions start at: 12:15 PM, 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM.

The check-in windows that feed them:

Session	Mon, Tue, Wed	Thu and Fri
1	8:00 to 8:30 AM	12:00 to 12:30 PM
2	9:15 to 9:45 AM	1:15 to 1:45 PM
3	11:45 AM to 12:15 PM	4:15 to 4:45 PM
4	1:00 to 1:30 PM	5:15 to 5:45 PM
5	2:15 to 2:45 PM	6:15 to 6:45 PM

The county’s warning is direct: if you fail to make it during those check-in times you will forfeit your visit, and seating is first come, first served. A booked slot is not a held seat, so arriving early inside the window is better than arriving late in it.

Each person in custody is entitled to two one hour visits each week.

Ignore the Old Schedule Further Down the Page

A trap worth naming. The county’s main Correctional Center page carries, near the bottom, three identical copies of an obsolete visiting table showing hours like 8:00 to 11:00 AM and 12:00 to 4:00 PM, with an instruction to arrive no later than an hour and a half before the session closes.

That is the 2009 schedule, preserved from an archived version of the site. It contradicts the five-session schedule above and the thirty minute check-in windows. Use the current visiting page, not the tables at the foot of the older one.

Who Can Come With You

Two adults and two children may visit at one time.

Each visitor is allowed one visit on each visiting day, with an exception where more than one immediate family member is in the facility.

For children:

• They must be accompanied by a parent or a person with proof of guardianship, or the accompanying adult needs a notarized letter from the parent or guardian specifically giving permission to bring that child to visit that person.
• An original copy of the birth certificate is required.
• During the visit, children must remain seated on the chair and stay on the visitor’s side of the table.

The Colours Nobody Expects

Nassau bans three, not one:

Orange, green and yellow clothing are prohibited on the facility grounds.

The rest of the dress code:

• One layer of clothing only.
• Clothing with excessive metal, including buttons and zips, and underwire bras, will not clear the detector.
• No hooded clothing, crop tops, miniskirts, see-through or mesh garments, or jackets.
• Nothing contrary to public decency.
• All hair items must be removed before entering the scan area.

Screening, and What the Visit Itself Looks Like

Belongings go into lockers. Screening is a metal detector plus a visual check of the mouth, and narcotic dogs are used. Religious head coverings including hairpieces, wigs, kufis, hijabs and yarmulkes are subject to search.

Inside the visit: one brief embrace at the start and one at the end, hands stay above the counter, and you get a two minute warning before the end.

If an order of protection exists, the county’s rule is that the order must specifically state that visitation is allowed during incarceration.

The Three Things You Can Hand Over

Unusually, Nassau does allow a short list of items to come in through visiting:

1. One set of civilian clothing for court appearances. No jogging suits, no t-shirts, no belts and no jeans.
2. A medal or crucifix. No more than a quarter inch thick, solid metal, no stones, no removable parts, no sharp edges, no more than an inch across and no more than $50 in value.
3. Prescription eyeglasses, plastic, pre-approved by facility medical staff.

Everything else is contraband. The county publishes a contraband warning listing fifteen categories with penal law citations, and a Spanish version of the same.

Attorney Visits

Attorney visiting runs on its own schedule, and attorneys may walk in. The Legal Unit is 516-572-3865 and the Operations Unit is 516-572-4266.