Visiting Sing Sing Correctional Facility

Wednesdays Belong to Everyone

Every Wednesday on the Sing Sing calendar is marked ALL. Under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Sing Sing is one of the prisons with Wednesday visiting.

Weekends Go by the DIN

The calendar heading reads:

Visitation days list last digit(s) of DIN of incarcerated individual scheduled

Each Saturday and Sunday is labelled Odd or Even. A DIN ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 is Odd, and one ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 is Even. Zero counts as even. Saturday and Sunday usually go to different groups.

No Weekday Holidays

Sing Sing is one of the prisons where weekday holiday visiting stays suspended under the 7 September update. A holiday that falls on a weekend keeps its Odd or Even label.

One Visit a Day, Space Permitting

NYSDOCCS publishes the rule as one non-legal visit per day based on available space. Visits run 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Arriving early on a busy weekend is the safest plan.

Special Housing

Anyone in the Special Housing Unit 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.

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. Arriving early helps on busy weekends.

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 Ossining

Sing Sing is at 354 Hunter Street in Ossining, Westchester County, on the Hudson River.

From	Approximate journey
White Plains	About twenty five minutes
New York City	About an hour
Poughkeepsie	About fifty minutes
Albany	About two and a quarter hours

The prison is next to the Ossining station on the Metro-North Hudson Line, and the free state visitor bus serves Sing Sing too.

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.

On the Days That Are Not Yours

One weekend day in two belongs to the other group, and weekdays other than Wednesday have no visiting.

Calls from every New York state prison have been free since August 2025, and letters and photographs land on the days you cannot come. Pigeonly sends both from your phone, addressed to 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, so the days in between are not silent ones.