How to Visit Dick Conner Correctional Center

When the Visiting Room Is Open

DCCC’s scheduled visiting window runs 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, the same statewide range ODOC sets for every facility. The warden decides which portion of that window the facility actually uses on a given day, but how many hours belong to your specific visit comes down to the inmate’s privilege level, covered next. Visiting days include Saturday, Sunday, and any state holiday. When a holiday falls on a weekday, it becomes a bonus “free” visiting day added on top of the inmate’s normal weekly allowance. Call the ODOC Visitation Unit at (405) 768-3269 or DCCC at (918) 594-1300 to confirm the current schedule and lock in a time.

Weekly Visiting Hours by Privilege Level

Because DCCC is a minimum and medium custody facility, most families here will be working with the Medium or Minimum rows of ODOC’s table below, not the Maximum tier reserved for higher-security prisons. The full statewide breakdown still applies:

Security Level	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Maximum	1 hour, non-contact	Up to 2 hours/week	Up to 3 hours/week	Up to 4 hours/week
Medium	1 hour, non-contact	Up to 2 hours/week	Up to 4 hours/week	Up to 6 hours/week
Minimum	1 hour, non-contact	Up to 4 hours/week	Up to 6 hours/week	Up to 8 hours/week

At every level, Level 1 caps out at one non-contact hour a week. An inmate needs to reach Level 2 before a visit can include the brief hug and kiss ODOC allows at the start and end. The person you’re visiting will know their current level, and it tells you exactly how much time to plan for on your trip.

Segregation, Protective Custody, and Disciplinary Time

Inmates held in special management housing, meaning administrative segregation or protective custody, are limited to one non-contact hour a week, and only with a mother, father, spouse, attorney, or member of clergy. ODOC’s policy names three specific facilities where this one-hour cap doesn’t apply the same way: Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the former Lawton Correctional Facility, and Mabel Bassett Correctional Center. Dick Conner Correctional Center is not one of those three, so the standard one-hour, non-contact rule applies here with no facility-specific exception.

Disciplinary status, often called DU time, cuts off visits entirely except for an attorney or clergy member. If disciplinary detention runs past 60 days, the inmate’s visiting rights shift to match the same long-term segregation and protective custody limits described above.

Landing On the Approved Visitor List

Before your first trip out to Hominy, you need to be cleared and added to the inmate’s approved visitor list. Here’s the process:

1. Get the Visitor Request Form (DOC 030118B). The inmate can mail it to you, or you can request it from the ODOC Visitation Unit. Faster route: enter your email at the top of this page and we’ll send the direct link now.
2. Complete it in full. Legal name, date of birth, home address, and how you’re related to the inmate, plus a copy of your state-issued photo ID or driver’s license.
3. Submit it by 1:00 PM Wednesday. Forms that arrive after the cutoff roll into the following week’s processing batch.
4. Clear the background check. ODOC runs every visitor 18 and older through an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and FBI records check, along with a check against the Office of the Inspector General’s Visitor Alert system.
5. Watch for approval. ODOC’s policy doesn’t set a published turnaround time for this check, so if it’s dragging on, call the Visitation Unit and ask for a status update rather than guessing at a deadline. Once you’re approved, you’re good for three years before a new application is required.

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Fresh transfer from intake? Men who just arrived at DCCC from Lexington Assessment and Reception Center (LARC) without an approved visitor list yet aren’t locked out right away. Family already listed in the inmate’s field file can get one visit within 30 days while the formal Visitor Request Form works its way through processing.

Visitor List Limits and a Few Rules That Catch People Off Guard

Each inmate can have up to 20 approved visitors, and kids under 18 don’t count toward that number. No more than 5 approved visitors can show up for the same visit. ODOC’s definition of immediate family covers a spouse, natural or surrogate parents, grandparents, in-laws, children including step and adopted children, grandchildren, siblings, and aunts or uncles.

A handful of rules trip families up:

• A visitor listed as a “friend” rather than family can only be on one inmate’s approved list, at any ODOC facility or private prison holding ODOC inmates, at a time.
• Someone who isn’t family and was previously incarcerated has to wait three years after finishing their full sentence, including supervision, and still needs facility-head approval to be added.
• If you’re dropped from one inmate’s list, you can’t join a different inmate’s list for a full year afterward.
• If the inmate themselves asks to have you removed, they can’t add you back for 120 days.
• Former ODOC employees, or employees of a facility under ODOC contract, have to wait three years before they can be added as a non-family visitor.

Bringing Children Along

A child needs documentation on hand every time, no exceptions. If the child belongs to the inmate, they need to come with an approved adult visitor. Any other child needs their own parent or legal guardian present, along with proof of the relationship, a birth certificate or adoption paperwork works. Once a child turns 18, they go through the same Visitor Request Form process as any adult to stay on the list.

ODOC can restrict a child’s visitation if it receives documentation from a court, the Department of Human Services, a legal guardian, or a district attorney showing the visit isn’t in the child’s best interest.

Dress Code

ODOC’s dress code (form DOC 030118A) applies to every adult visitor and to children over age 11, unless a medical or handicap condition prevents compliance. Any of the following can get you turned away at the door or pulled out of a visit already underway:

• Shorts, skorts, skirts, or dresses that fall above the kneecap, or anything tight-fitting
• Wrap-around skirts, or skirts and dresses slit above the kneecap
• Tube tops, tank tops, crop tops, halter tops, spaghetti straps, or sleeveless, transparent, or mesh tops
• Leggings, biker pants, or body suits
• Spandex, including swimwear
• Blue, periwinkle, camouflage, or orange shirts, since those colors are reserved for inmate uniforms
• Tight-fitting sweat suits
• Low-cut clothing, or anything with rips or cutouts
• Clothing carrying profanity, offensive wording, or offensive images
• Headgear other than a religious head covering
• Anything that exposes the midriff, sits off the shoulder, or shows part of the breast

Everyone needs to wear appropriate underclothing. If your outfit is borderline, expect a delay while staff decide whether it clears.

What to Leave Behind

Bring your state ID and not much else. Cell phones, cameras, recording devices, oversized bags, and outerwear that could hide something all need to stay in the vehicle.

Contraband covers cell phones and accessories, any electronic device, alcohol, firearms, ammunition, drugs or paraphernalia, unauthorized paperwork, photos that weren’t pre-approved, and anything else that threatens facility security. Trying to bring any of it in, or even leaving it on the grounds for an inmate to grab later, can end your visiting privileges and lead to felony charges. Passing anything between you and the inmate that wasn’t approved beforehand ends the visit on the spot, even if the item itself is harmless, and can get you pulled from the visitor list. Infant care items like bottles, diapers, and baby food are the one exception and are allowed at every ODOC facility.

Getting Through Security

Expect this sequence before you’re walked back to see anyone:

• Pat search. Required for every visitor 18 and older. Visitors under 18 skip this step.
• X-ray. Since DCCC holds medium custody inmates as part of its population, visitor property runs through an x-ray scanner.
• Metal detector. You get three attempts to clear it. A fourth failed attempt ends the visit.
• Canine screening. At the facility head’s discretion, a drug-detection dog may check visitors and vehicles. A first alert denies just that day’s visit. A second alert on the same person or car brings a 90 to 180 day suspension. A third brings a full year suspension.

You can step out for the restroom once during a visit with no extra time added to make up for it. If the visiting room doesn’t have separate restrooms for visitors and inmates, the inmate is strip-searched before rejoining the visit. Refusing any part of the screening ends the visit immediately and risks removal from the list. Everyone 18 and older shows photo ID that gets checked against the approved list and your appearance, every single time you come.

Cash for the Vending Machines

Inmates can’t carry currency, so if you want a snack or drink from the machines during your visit, bring the cash yourself. Visitors can carry up to $30 in quarters, kept in a clear, quart-size bag. Facilities typically stock sandwich, snack, and beverage machines for use during visits.

Video Visitation If You Can’t Make the Trip

ODOC offers video visits through Securus Video Connect for anyone already on the inmate’s approved list.

• Create a Securus account and apply online for DCCC specifically. You’ll get an email once ODOC approves or denies it.
• Once approved, video visits run 20 minutes and have to be booked at least 48 hours ahead, first-come-first-served in 30-minute blocks.
• If DCCC cancels a scheduled video visit for operational reasons, you can ask Securus for a credit toward a future visit.
• Only people on the approved list can appear on camera. Anyone else showing up in frame gets the visit suspended or the account terminated.
• A minor can’t run their own video visitation account. Their visit has to go through an approved adult’s account, with that adult present the whole time.
• You supply your own device and internet connection. ODOC isn’t responsible for connection or hardware problems, and the same dress code and conduct rules apply as an in-person visit. Every video visit is recorded and can be watched live by staff.

Pricing is set by Securus, not ODOC, so check current rates directly with the provider before you set up an account.

Attorney and Special Visits

Attorney visits carry the same general privileges as a standard visit. The attorney may be asked to show an Oklahoma Bar Association card, and paralegals, investigators, law students, or expert witnesses on the case may need a letter on the attorney’s letterhead. With advance notice and the facility head’s sign-off, an attorney visit can run outside the normal visiting window, typically during business hours, and can include a laptop or tablet for reviewing documents. These visits are watched by staff but not audio recorded.

Special visits cover situations the normal schedule doesn’t fit: someone who traveled a long distance, a re-entry program volunteer, a visit with a hospitalized inmate, clergy, or a visit during disciplinary status limited to attorney or clergy only. At DCCC, special and attorney visits are scheduled on Mondays and Thursdays by prior arrangement with the facility or the ODOC Visitation Unit, and the exact length and conditions are set case-by-case by the facility head.

Conduct Rules and What Happens If You Break Them

A standard visit allows a brief hug and kiss at the start and end, and that’s the limit. Continued embracing or excessive kissing, hickeys, touching or fondling of the genitals, breasts, buttocks, thighs, back, or stomach through or under clothing, sitting on laps, straddling legs, lying down, or using a restroom meant for the opposite sex all end the visit immediately and can get you removed from the list for a period the facility head decides.

Beyond conduct, ODOC applies the same violation ladder at every facility and private prison holding ODOC inmates:

• First violation: temporary restriction of 90 to 180 days
• Second violation: temporary restriction of 180 to 365 days
• Third violation: permanent restriction, which only a regional administrator or higher can lift

Some violations skip straight to a permanent restriction on the first offense: helping someone escape, bringing in a weapon, bringing in a cell phone or other electronic device, bringing in drugs or alcohol, or assaulting staff, a visitor, or an inmate.

These aren’t just internal facility rules. Oklahoma Statutes, Title 57, Chapter 1, Section 21 makes several of them criminal offenses:

• Weapons, drugs, alcohol, or money or financial documents for anyone other than the inmate or their spouse: a felony carrying one to five years in ODOC custody, a fine of $100 to $1,000, or both.
• Tobacco or tobacco products: a misdemeanor carrying up to a year in county jail, a fine up to $500, or both.
• A cell phone or other electronic communication device brought into a secure area: a felony carrying up to two years in ODOC custody, a fine up to $2,500, or both.

Tobacco is banned system-wide. If you have any on you, it has to stay locked in your car for the entire visit, and it can’t come back out until you’ve left state property.

Contact

Dick Conner Correctional Center 129 Conner Road Hominy, OK 74035-0220 Phone: (918) 594-1300 ODOC Visitation Unit: (405) 768-3269