Orleans is the one New York prison where a family can work out a year of visiting days from a single digit, because the DIN is matched to the date on the calendar. Connect with your loved one in minutes.
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Orleans takes visits on weekends and weekday holidays, 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM, with the last arrival at 2:00 PM. Which dates are yours comes down to one digit. An odd number at the end of the DIN means odd-numbered calendar dates; an even number means even dates. Most New York prisons make you look this up on a calendar, and Orleans lets you work it out in your head.
Here is the whole rule, as NYSDOCCS publishes it:
Incarcerated individuals with a DIN ending with an odd number will be allowed visitors on odd calendar days. Incarcerated individuals with a DIN ending with an even number will be allowed visitors on even calendar days.
So if the DIN ends in 7, the dates that belong to you are the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and so on. If it ends in 4, yours are the 2nd, 4th, 6th and so on.
Combine that with weekends and weekday holidays only, and you have the year. No calendar to look up, no group letter to remember.
Zero counts as even, as it does anywhere else.
There is one wrinkle, and it is in the schedule:
If consecutive odd numbered calendar days fall on a weekend, the 2nd day will be an EVEN visit day.
This matters more often than it sounds. A month with 31 days is followed by the 1st, so two odd dates land back to back. When that pair falls across a Saturday and Sunday, the second day flips to even.
In practice: an odd DIN gets the Saturday, and an even DIN gets the Sunday that would otherwise have been odd. Worth checking at the turn of a month before a long journey.
On a weekday holiday the rule is switched off. The schedule says holiday visitation is open to all incarcerated individuals regardless of DIN.
Orleans moved into the weekday holiday group under the NYSDOCCS visitation update effective 7 September 2026, so those dates are worth marking. For a family whose DIN parity keeps landing badly, a holiday is the one guaranteed date.
Visits run 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM, which is the widest window of any prison in this corner of the state.
The latest you can arrive is 2:00 PM. The hour and a quarter between the cutoff and the close is not a late window, and arriving at 2:10 means the visit does not happen however far you have come.
On a date that belongs to your group there is no limit on the number of visits.
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.
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. Allow extra time on that trip.
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.
The village of Albion holds two state prisons about two miles apart.
| Orleans | Albion | |
|---|---|---|
| Holds | Men | Women |
| Street | 3531 Gaines Basin Road | 3595 State School Road |
| ZIP | 14411-9199 | 14411-9399 |
| Phone | 585-589-6820 | 585-589-5511 |
| Weekend rule | DIN matched to the date | Surname, A to K and L to Z |
They do not share a visiting rule, so a family visiting both has two different systems to keep straight. Set the satnav to Gaines Basin Road, not to the village.
Orleans is one of 18 New York prisons reached by a free roundtrip visitor bus, run in partnership with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Albion is on the same list.
It costs the family nothing, which matters at roughly seven hours from New York City. Albion village itself is about forty minutes west of Rochester.
Seats are booked ahead, so check the date against the DIN before you book one.
Photo identification for everyone over sixteen, and the visit does not proceed without it.
Phones, bags and electronics stay in the car or on the coach.
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.
Half the calendar belongs to the other parity, and that is the half the post and the phone cover.
Calls from every New York state prison have been free since August 2025. Pigeonly sends letters and photos from your phone, addressed to Gaines Basin Road with the right ZIP+4, so the days you cannot travel still carry something.
6 of 10 questions
It depends on the last digit of the DIN. An odd last digit means odd-numbered calendar dates and an even last digit means even-numbered dates, on weekends and weekday holidays. Holidays themselves are open to everyone regardless of DIN.
VisitationThe second one becomes an even day. NYSDOCCS states that if consecutive odd numbered calendar days fall on a weekend, the second day is an EVEN visit day. That usually happens at the turn of a month with 31 days, so it is worth checking before a long trip.
VisitationEven. Zero is treated as an even number, so a DIN ending in zero follows the even-date schedule.
Visitation8:00 AM to 3:15 PM on weekends and weekday holidays, with the latest arrival at 2:00 PM. On a date that belongs to your DIN group there is no limit on the number of visits.
VisitationThe visit does not go ahead, even though the room stays open until 3:15 PM. The gap between the two times is not a late window.
VisitationNo. A regular visit needs no appointment. Turn up during visiting hours with photo identification, as long as the person inside agrees to the visit. On a first visit staff photograph you for the visitor ID system and you sign a statement agreeing to the rules.
VisitationThree visitors, plus one child under the age of five who does not count toward the three. A child of five or older does count.
VisitationYes. 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.
VisitationNo. Albion Correctional Facility, two miles away in the same village, splits its weekends by the first letter of the last name into A to K and L to Z. Orleans matches the DIN to the date. A family visiting both prisons has two different systems to track.
VisitationYes. Orleans is one of 18 New York prisons served by a free roundtrip visitor bus run in partnership with the state, and Albion is on the same list. Check the date against the DIN before booking a seat.
VisitationThe DIN that decides your dates.
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