Riverhead takes bail around the clock and is the only place in Suffolk County that accepts bonds at all, whichever of the two jails holds your person. Send photos and letters too.
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This is the page where Suffolk’s two jails genuinely differ. Commissary deposits work identically at both, with the same vendor, the same cap and the same processing time. Bail does not, and Riverhead is the one that never closes. If a court sets bail at nine in the evening, this building is where you are going.
| Riverhead | Yaphank | |
|---|---|---|
| Hours | 24 hours, every day | Seven days, 7:00 AM to 10:30 PM |
| Bonds | Accepted | Not accepted |
| After 10:30 PM | Open | Closed, come here |
Two things follow from that table and both are worth knowing before you need them.
Bail set late at night comes to Riverhead. Courts do not stop at five, and Suffolk’s own material says plainly that all bail after 10:30 PM goes here.
Any bond comes to Riverhead. Not only late ones. If what you are posting is a bond rather than cash, Riverhead is the only place in the county that will take it, regardless of which of the two jails holds your person.
Bail information comes from Central Records on 631-852-2241, which is also staffed around the clock. That combination, a records desk and a bail desk both open all night, is unusual for a New York county and it is the most genuinely useful thing about this facility.
Nothing here differs between Riverhead and Yaphank.
| Route | Takes |
|---|---|
| Access Corrections online or on 1-866-345-1884 | Cards |
| Kiosk in the Riverhead visiting lobby | Cash, credit, debit |
| Money order by post | Money order |
| Cash carried in at booking | Cash |
No personal cheques, anywhere, by any route.
Suffolk states these, which many counties do not:
That last one is worth planning around if a specific amount matters to your person.
Both names appear in county material and families reasonably wonder which to use.
Keefe Commissary Service supplies the goods that get bought. Access Corrections is the route you deposit through. They are part of the same corporate group, which is why they sit side by side without explanation.
Use Access Corrections. Keefe is not something a family interacts with.
JPay also lists both Suffolk jails on its own site with a money transfer product. Suffolk County itself names and links Access Corrections, so that is what this guide leads with. Where a county names one route and a vendor advertises another, following the county is the safer choice.
Suffolk publishes what happens to a remaining balance, and it is worth reading before it becomes urgent.
The money is loaded onto a prepaid Debit Mastercard. From there:
Money left on the card shrinks. Both free routes exist specifically so it does not have to, and using one of them promptly is the whole point.
The county’s own document does not name the card issuer, so we cannot tell you whose card arrives in the post.
Confirm which jail holds your person on 631-852-2241. An online deposit follows the person and is safe either way. A drive to a lobby kiosk is not, and Riverhead and Yaphank are about 20 miles apart.
6 of 8 questions
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 only. Suffolk's own material states that all bail after 10:30 at night comes to Riverhead.
Send MoneyRiverhead, and only Riverhead. It is the sole facility in Suffolk County that accepts bonds, whichever of the two jails holds your person. Yaphank does not take them at any hour. This is the clearest practical difference between the two buildings.
Send MoneyThrough Access Corrections, online or on 1-866-345-1884, or at the kiosk in the Riverhead visiting lobby which takes cash, credit and debit. A money order by post and cash handed over at booking are the other routes. Personal cheques are not accepted by any of them.
Send MoneyYes, 100 dollars per deposit. Suffolk publishes that alongside a processing time of about 15 minutes. Sending more means splitting it across transactions, and each one carries its own fee.
Send MoneyNo, it comes out of it. Suffolk states that the fee reduces the amount deposited, so a 100 dollar payment puts less than 100 dollars on the books. If your person needs a specific amount, work backwards from the fee rather than forwards from what you are paying.
Send MoneyThey do two different jobs within the same corporate group. Keefe Commissary Service supplies the goods that get bought inside. Access Corrections is the deposit route families use. You only ever deal with Access Corrections.
Send MoneyAccess Corrections, because that is the route Suffolk County itself names and links. JPay does list both Suffolk jails with a money transfer product on its own site. When a county publishes one route and a vendor advertises another, following the county's own instruction is the safer choice.
Send MoneyIt goes onto a prepaid Debit Mastercard. Cashing out at a Mastercard member bank is free, an ACH transfer to a bank account is free, and MoneyPass ATMs carry no surcharge. Weekly maintenance fees start after a grace period, so the balance erodes if it is left sitting there. Move it off using one of the free routes.
Send MoneyThe same number handles records and bail information.
View ArticleThe kiosk is in the visiting lobby you will already be in.
View ArticleMoney orders go to 110, bail goes to 100.
View ArticleA separate product from the same group of companies.
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