Visitor Limits at Alachua County Jail: Children, One-Inmate Rule, and the 2-Hour Weekly Allowance
Planning a visit to Alachua County Jail? Three rules shape every trip: how many people can attend, whether young children count toward that limit, and how your weekly time gets divided.
Each onsite visit at Alachua County Jail allows up to two visitors. The jail offers two separate 1-hour sessions, which helps if you need to rotate family members or work around schedules.
Planning tip: If you’re hoping several family members can visit, plan around two separate 1-hour sessions and decide in advance which two people will attend each session.
Good news if you're bringing a baby: children under 24 months don't count toward the visitor limit. Your infant or toddler under 2 can come along without taking one of the two spots.
- ✓ Children under 24 months must be supervised by an adult at all times during visitation.
The jail limits visitors to one inmate per day. You can only see the person you signed up for - no switching to a different inmate during the same trip.
Inmates not on disciplinary confinement get two hours of non-contact visitation per week, counted Sunday through Saturday. Those two hours are typically split into two 1-hour onsite sessions. Plan around one-hour blocks rather than expecting a single two-hour visit.
- Check the housing schedule - Visitation availability depends on where the inmate is housed, so the schedule you can use may vary.
- Choose available 1-hour session times - Onsite visits can be scheduled as two separate 1-hour sessions within the Sunday–Saturday week.
- Pick who will attend each session - Each session allows two visitors total, so decide who will use each one-hour slot.
Note: The exact visitation times you can book depend on the inmate’s housing location schedule.
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