The larger of Suffolk County's two jails, on Glover Drive in Yaphank, holding 976 people across dormitory and podular housing with a medical pod alongside. It is where the county puts its specialised units: the Veterans Pod, the 55 and over Pod, the addiction treatment programme and the women's programme. About four in five people here have not been sentenced.
City
Yaphank
County
Suffolk County, New York
State
NY
Facility Type
County jail
Gender
Male and female
Capacity
976
Custody Levels
Minimum, medium and maximum, about 80 percent unsentenced
Operator
Suffolk County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
Address
200 Glover Drive, Yaphank, NY 11980
Phone
631-852-2200
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No search tool exists. One phone number does the work instead.
View ArticleTwo steps in a fixed order, and the first one needs a number you may not have.
View ArticleOne mailing address covers both jails, and it is not this one.
View ArticleFifteen minutes to land, no personal cheques, and a limit per deposit.
View ArticleTwo vendors, two products, and one of them lists the wrong address.
View ArticleSuffolk County operates no inmate search tool. Not a roster, not a lookup form, not a booking feed. Several sites point at a county lookup page that does not exist, and we proved it does not by testing a nonsense address that returned the same page. What does work is Central Records on 631-852-2241, staffed around the clock, and it is the call that settles which of the two jails to drive to.
See the full breakdownTwo steps in a fixed order. Every visitor completes an online Guest Registration first, including any additional guests, and only then can a reservation be made by phone. Visiting runs Tuesday to Saturday with nothing on Sundays or Mondays, two adult visitors per person, and only the adults named on the reservation are allowed onto the grounds at all.
See the full breakdownSuffolk publishes exactly one inmate mailing address for both jails, and it carries a Riverhead street. Yaphank has none of its own. The rules underneath are unusually specific: white envelopes only, nothing over five by seven inches for a photograph, no Polaroids, and a property cap of fifteen photographs at a time. The county also names one electronic mail service with published prices.
See the full breakdownBoth jails have a kiosk in the visiting lobby taking cash, credit and debit, and both sit under the same countywide rules: a 100 dollar limit per deposit, funds available in about fifteen minutes, a fee that comes out of the amount rather than being added to it, and no personal cheques anywhere. Bail is the thing that genuinely differs between the two buildings.
See the full breakdownSuffolk names Securus Technologies for phone service and nothing more: no setup steps, no rates, no call limits. JPay, a company in the same group, separately lists both jails with their own facility codes and a single kiosk each, offering money transfer and email. One thing to watch is that JPay's own Yaphank page publishes Riverhead's address and phone number.
See the full breakdown6 of 8 questions
No, they are two separate jails run by the same Sheriff's Office. Yaphank is at 200 Glover Drive in Yaphank and holds 976; Riverhead is at 100 Center Drive South and holds 840. Suffolk publishes one set of family rules covering both, which is why they look identical online, but the buildings, the housing types and the programmes are different.
Inmate SearchBy calling. Suffolk County publishes no inmate search tool of any kind, so there is no page that will tell you. Central Records is staffed around the clock on 631-852-2241 and is the route families use. It is also the single most important call to make, because the visiting reservation and the drive both depend on the answer.
Inmate SearchAn identification number issued by the Sheriff's Office to the person in custody. Guest Registration will not go through without it. Since the county publishes no roster, there is no public way to look it up, so it has to come from your person directly or from Central Records on 631-852-2241. It is the sharpest obstacle in the whole Suffolk process.
VisitationTuesday to Friday there are four evening and afternoon slots: 2:30 to 3:30, 4:00 to 5:00, 6:45 to 7:45 and 8:15 to 9:15 PM. Saturday runs 8:30 to 9:30 and 10:00 to 11:00 in the morning, then 1:00 to 2:00 and 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon. There is no family visiting on Sundays or Mondays.
VisitationTo the Suffolk County Correctional Facility at 110 Center Drive South, Riverhead, NY 11901, with the person's name on it. That is the county's one published inmate mailing address and it covers both jails. Yaphank has no separate address of its own, so mail for someone at Glover Drive still goes to the Riverhead box.
Mail & PhotosSize and what it holds. Yaphank is larger at 976 beds, runs dormitory alongside podular housing, and has a medical pod. Its programmes include the Sheriff's Addiction Treatment Program, a Veterans Pod, a 55 and over Pod, and the women's Choose To Thrive programme. The START Resource Center also sits on the Yaphank grounds.
VisitationSome of the time. Yaphank takes bail seven days a week but only between 7:00 AM and 10:30 PM. Riverhead is open around the clock and is the only one of the two that accepts bonds. Anything after 10:30 at night has to go to Riverhead, whichever jail your person is in.
Send MoneyThrough Access Corrections, online or on 1-866-345-1884, or at the kiosk in the Yaphank visiting lobby, which takes cash, credit and debit. There is a 100 dollar limit per deposit and funds land in about 15 minutes. Personal cheques are not accepted anywhere.
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