How Visiting Works at Belmont Correctional Institution (ODRC): Hours, Registration, and What to Prepare
Visiting at Belmont Correctional Institution follows ODRC rules and a set processing schedule. Planning your first trip? Focus on two things: getting approved before you go and arriving early enough to meet the check-in cutoffs.
This guide covers in-person visiting at Belmont Correctional Institution, an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction facility. Hours and procedures can change without notice, so call the institution to verify the current schedule before you make the drive.
Belmont offers two visiting sessions: morning from 7:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., and afternoon from 11:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Here's what trips people up: you have to be checked in and processed by the cutoff time for your session. Show up after the cutoff, and you may be turned away - even if visiting is still in progress. Hours can shift around holidays and special events, so always confirm the schedule before you go.
Timing rule: You must be processed by 10:00 a.m. for the morning session and by 1:30 p.m. for the afternoon session.
Visiting starts with the incarcerated person's approved visiting list. Under ODRC rules, that list can include up to 15 approved adult visitors total. No more than two of those adults can be designated as
Before your first visit, you need to be approved. ODRC requires each potential visitor to complete a Visiting Application (DRC2096), sign the Declaration of Understanding (DRC2554), and sign the General Visiting Instructions (DRC2274). You'll also need to provide valid identification. Visiting doesn't happen just because you show up with paperwork - your application has to be processed and approved first.
- ✓ Complete the Visiting Application (DRC2096)
- ✓ Sign the Declaration of Understanding (DRC2554)
- ✓ Sign the General Visiting Instructions (DRC2274)
- ✓ Provide a copy of your bona fide identification
- ✓ Wait to visit until your application has been processed and you’re approved
Don't plan to hand anything to your loved one during the visit. Visitors can't deliver packages, correspondence, money, or printed materials directly to incarcerated persons. Those items have to go through the mail process required by policy - not passed during visitation.
Reminder: If you try to hand-deliver money, letters, photos, books, or a package during visitation, it will be refused. Send items through the proper mail channels instead.
- Confirm the current visiting schedule - Visiting hours are subject to change without notice, so verify the latest information before you travel.
- Make sure you’re approved to visit - Your name must be on the incarcerated person’s approved visiting list, and you must be approved through the visitor application process.
- Finish your paperwork and have ID ready - Complete DRC2096 and sign DRC2554 and DRC2274, and be prepared to provide bona fide identification.
- Arrive early enough to meet processing cutoffs - You must be processed by 10:00 a.m. for the morning session (7:45–11:15) or by 1:30 p.m. for the afternoon session (11:45–3:00).
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