What Happens If Visitation Time Is Lost for Disciplinary Reasons at Broome County
If your loved one loses visitation time at Broome County for a disciplinary issue, the facility’s rule allows them to lose up to one hour of visitation time per week. Here’s what that usually means for the time you’re able to spend together.
At Broome County, incarcerated individuals can lose visitation time as a disciplinary consequence. The facility’s stated rule is that someone may lose up to one hour of visitation time per week for disciplinary offenses. If you’re trying to plan a visit and the time suddenly seems shorter than expected, this is one of the first things to ask about - because the loss is measured weekly, it can affect that entire week’s visiting plans, not just one specific day.
Note: The facility reserves the right to change, alter, or reassign visitation times as needed, so the schedule you planned around can shift even when you’re also dealing with a disciplinary time loss.
For General Housing, Broome County allows up to two hours of contact visitation per week. When someone loses up to one hour for disciplinary reasons, that loss comes out of the weekly time they’re allowed - so in a week where the full one-hour loss is applied, the maximum contact visitation time available that week can effectively drop from two hours down to one hour. It also helps to know that visits aren’t always a fixed length. The facility states that visitation sessions can range from a 30-minute minimum to a 2-hour maximum per visit. In practical terms, a one-hour weekly loss may mean a shorter session than you expected, or it may limit whether the person can have a longer visit that week at all.
Closed days matter: Visitation is closed on Saturday, Sunday, and all Broome County holidays, which can make it harder to “make up” time during a week when hours are reduced.
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- ✓ Call Inmate Records (extensions 6007 or 2940) and ask whether any lost visitation time can be restored and, if so, how that works.
- ✓ Ask how disciplinary visitation losses are documented, and what you should request or confirm to understand the current week’s allowance.
- ✓ Confirm whether visitation times were changed, altered, or reassigned, and whether a schedule change is affecting what you were told about available time.
When you speak with the facility, be specific: ask how a “loss of up to one hour per week” is being applied right now, and how that changes the General Housing allowance of up to two hours of contact visitation per week. That one question gets you to the most useful answer - how much time is actually available this week - so you can plan your trip and set expectations before you arrive.
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