One of Suffolk County's two jails, on Center Drive South in Riverhead, holding 840 people across linear and podular housing. It is the county's round-the-clock bail facility and the only one of the two that accepts bonds, and its street is also the single address Suffolk publishes for inmate mail at both buildings.
City
Riverhead
County
Suffolk County, New York
State
NY
Facility Type
County jail
Gender
Male and female
Capacity
840
Custody Levels
Minimum, medium and maximum, about 80 percent unsentenced
Operator
Suffolk County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
Address
100 Center Drive South, Riverhead, NY 11901
Phone
631-852-2200
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Suffolk publishes none. One number, staffed through the night, does the work.
View ArticleOriginal documents, a form signed inside, and help if you have no ID.
View ArticleTen digits separate the mailroom from the front door.
View ArticleThe single most useful difference between Suffolk's two jails.
View ArticleThe county names a vendor. The vendor publishes the detail.
View ArticleThere is no Suffolk County roster, lookup form or booking feed, and the county lookup page cited across search results is not real. Central Records on 631-852-2241 is staffed around the clock and is the route that works. It is also the place to get the six digit identification number that the visiting registration form demands and that nothing public will give you.
See the full breakdownSuffolk's rules for minors are stricter than most: an original birth certificate or court documentation for every child, and for a child not accompanied by a parent or documented guardian, a Parental Acknowledgement Form signed by the incarcerated person inside the jail. The county also runs something unusual for visitors without acceptable identification, a resource centre that will help obtain the documents.
See the full breakdownSuffolk publishes a single inmate mailing address for both jails and it carries a Riverhead street, which makes this the one facility where the mail address and the building broadly agree. They are still not identical: the facility is at 100 Center Drive South and mail goes to 110. Underneath sit some specific rules, including white envelopes only and a fifteen photograph property cap.
See the full breakdownThis is the genuine difference between Suffolk's two jails. Riverhead takes bail around the clock, every day, and is the only one of the two that accepts bonds at all. Yaphank runs 7:00 AM to 10:30 PM and takes no bonds. Commissary deposits, by contrast, are identical at both: a 100 dollar cap, about fifteen minutes to land, and a fee taken out of the amount sent.
See the full breakdownSuffolk names Securus Technologies and publishes nothing further, so the useful detail comes from the vendor side. JPay lists Riverhead under facility code 06704 with one kiosk inside, offering money transfer and email, with message stamps sold in bundles. Several vendors families expect at a New York county jail are confirmed absent here, including ConnectNetwork and GettingOut.
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Yes. Riverhead accepts bail 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it is the only one of Suffolk's two jails that does. Yaphank runs 7:00 AM to 10:30 PM. Riverhead is also the only place in the county that accepts bonds, so a bond comes here regardless of which building holds your person.
Send MoneyNo. They are two separate jails run by the same Sheriff's Office under one set of published family rules. Riverhead is at 100 Center Drive South and holds 840; Yaphank is at 200 Glover Drive and holds 976. The differences that matter to a family are bail hours, housing type and which programmes run where.
Inmate SearchTo the Suffolk County Correctional Facility at 110 Center Drive South, Riverhead, NY 11901. That single address covers both jails. Note the street number: the facility is at 100 and the mail goes to 110, which is a genuinely easy thing to get wrong when both appear on county material.
Mail & PhotosCall Central Records on 631-852-2241, staffed around the clock. Suffolk County publishes no inmate search tool of any kind, and the county lookup page that appears in search results does not exist. That call is also how you get the six digit number the visiting registration form requires.
Inmate SearchTuesday to Friday, four slots: 2:30 to 3:30, 4:00 to 5:00, 6:45 to 7:45 and 8:15 to 9:15 PM. Saturday runs 8:30 to 9:30 and 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning, then 1:00 to 2:00 and 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon. No family visiting on Sundays or Mondays, and everything is by appointment.
VisitationWe noticed the same thing. New York's correction oversight body publishes a single Suffolk entry, for Riverhead at Center Drive, and Yaphank appears nowhere in that directory. The state's data agency tracks both separately and reports their populations individually. The oversight directory splits other two-jail counties, so this looks like a genuine gap rather than a convention.
Inmate SearchChoose Your Path, which serves people aged 18 to 25 with a 40 hour week of work and structured programming. Yaphank carries the county's other specialised units: the addiction treatment programme, the Veterans Pod, the 55 and over Pod and the women's programme.
VisitationUp to 100 dollars per deposit, through Access Corrections online or on 1-866-345-1884, or at the kiosk in the Riverhead visiting lobby which takes cash, credit and debit. Funds land in about 15 minutes, and the fee comes out of the deposit rather than being added to it.
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All information on this page comes directly from official government and facility sources. How we verify information › Last verified September 17, 2026. Official source: suffolkcountysheriffsoffice.com/corrections-division ›