Visiting Taconic Correctional Facility

Every Weekend Is Yours

The Taconic schedule says:

Weekend and Holiday visitation is open to all Incarcerated Individuals

and the facility page adds that there are no name or DIN restrictions. No group to work out, no calendar to match against a letter or a digit.

Under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Taconic is one of the prisons that takes visits on weekday holidays too.

One a Day, Two a Weekend

Taconic publishes two limits:

	Limit
Per day	One visit per incarcerated individual
Per weekend	Two visits

So Saturday and Sunday can both be visiting days for the same person, but not two visits on one day. If two sets of family are coming the same weekend, put them on different days.

Hours, and the 2:30 PM Line

Visits run 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. The latest you can arrive is 2:30 PM, an hour before the room closes.

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, first come first served.

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. Leave time for it before the 2:30 PM cutoff.

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 Harris Road

Taconic is at 250 Harris Road, Bedford Hills, in northern Westchester.

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

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York’s maximum security prison for women, is across the road at 247 Harris Road. They are separate prisons with separate gates and rules. Check which one you are visiting before you turn in.

The free state visitor bus serves Taconic.

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.

Between the Weekends

Two visits a weekend is generous by New York standards, but the five weekdays in between have no visiting outside holidays.

Calls from every New York state prison have been free since August 2025, and letters and photographs land on the other days. Pigeonly sends both from your phone, addressed to 250 Harris Road with the right ZIP, so the weekdays are not silent ones.