Visiting Ulster Correctional Facility

Odd or Even, by the Last Digit

The Ulster schedule sets it out in one paragraph:

Weekend visits are divided into specific segments of the population by the last digit of the DIN. The odd/even schedule does not apply to Cadre/SLP status incarcerated individuals and is waived on holidays for all others.

A DIN ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 is Odd. One ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 is Even, and zero counts as even.

The dated calendar labels every weekend day, and Saturday and Sunday usually go to different groups, swapping from week to week. Read your day off the calendar on the NYSDOCCS Ulster page, revised August 2026.

Cadre and SLP: The Exemption

Ulster publishes an exemption from its own weekend split. The odd/even rule does not apply to people with:

• Cadre status, the incarcerated work crew that keeps the facility running
• SLP status, the Senior Living Program

If the person you visit is in either, every weekend day is open to them. Ask them on a call whether their status applies before you plan around the calendar.

Holidays and Weekday Holidays

The split is waived on holidays for everyone. For the rest of 2026 the calendar marks October 12, November 11, November 26 and December 25 as holidays.

The Ulster location page still reads “Weekends”, but under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Ulster is one of the prisons that takes visits on weekday holidays. The update is the newer of the two.

Hours, and the 2:00 PM Line

Visits run 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM. The latest you can arrive is 2:00 PM, half 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.

Special Housing

Anyone in the Special Housing Unit at Ulster is allowed one non-legal visit within a seven-day period.

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 2:00 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 Berme Road

Ulster is at 750 Berme Road in the hamlet of Napanoch, Ulster County, next to Ellenville.

From	Approximate journey
Kingston	About forty minutes
Middletown	About forty minutes
Newburgh	About an hour
New York City	About two hours

Eastern NY Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, is also in Napanoch at 30 Institution Rd. It has different visiting days and its own gate. Set the satnav to Berme Road.

The Ulster County Jail is a different place again, in Kingston.

The free state visitor bus does not serve Ulster, although it does serve Eastern NY in the same hamlet.

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 for most families, and weekdays 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 days you cannot come. Pigeonly sends both from your phone, addressed to P.O. Box 800 in Napanoch with the right ZIP, so the days in between are not silent ones.