Visiting Wallkill Correctional Facility

Whose Name Decides the Day

The schedule uses the incarcerated person’s last name, not yours:

Weekend visits are divided into specific segments of the population by first letter of last name of the incarcerated individual. Holiday visits are open to all incarcerated individuals.

A visitor named Garcia coming to see someone named Thompson goes by the T. Everyone visiting the same person shares the same days, whatever their own surnames.

One Day Each Weekend

The two groups are A to L and M to Z, and on the Wallkill calendar Saturday and Sunday go to different groups almost every weekend. Which group gets Saturday changes from week to week.

So plan on one day each weekend, and check the dated calendar on the NYSDOCCS Wallkill page for which one. It is revised August 2026 and lists every weekend date with its group.

Holidays Belong to Everyone

Holiday visits are open to all, whatever the last name. For the rest of 2026 the Wallkill calendar marks October 12, November 11, November 26 and December 25 as ALL.

Under the NYSDOCCS visitation update that took effect on 7 September 2026, Wallkill is one of the prisons that takes visits on weekday holidays, so a Monday or Thursday holiday is a visiting day too.

An Early Day, and the 1:15 PM Line

Wallkill opens at 7:15 AM and closes at 2:15 PM. The latest you can arrive is 1:15 PM, an hour before the room closes.

A family used to an afternoon visit elsewhere can be turned away here at half past one. Plan to be through the door by the middle of the day at the latest.

Wallkill allows one visit per visiting day, so the time you arrive is the visit you get.

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, once they have been there three hours.
3. Visitors from further away, after three hours, first in first out.

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. With a 1:15 PM cutoff, arrive in the morning.

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 the Right Prison in Wallkill

Wallkill is at 50 McKendrick Road, in the hamlet of Wallkill, Ulster County.

From	Approximate journey
New Paltz	About fifteen minutes
Newburgh	About half an hour
Poughkeepsie	About forty minutes
New York City	About an hour and three quarters

Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, is in the same hamlet at 200 Quick Road. It is a separate prison with its own gate and its own rules. Set the satnav to McKendrick Road.

The Town of Wallkill is a different place, in Orange County near Middletown. A search for “Wallkill NY” can send you there. The prison is not in it.

The free state visitor bus does not serve Wallkill.

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 half of the alphabet, 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 G with the right ZIP, so the days in between are not silent ones.