Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays: Understanding Dutchess County Jail’s Contact Visit Schedule
Planning a contact visit at Dutchess County Jail? The calendar matters. Contact visits only happen on specific days, and holidays can throw off the usual schedule.
Contact visits at Dutchess County Jail happen on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. That's the weekly pattern. No contact visits on Saturdays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, or holidays. Show up on one of those days expecting a contact visit, and you'll be turned away. Double-check before you make the trip.
Note: Even if a holiday falls on a usual contact-visit day, contact visits are not held on holidays.
If the person you're visiting is classified as eligible for contact visits, they're allowed two per week. Each visit lasts sixty (60) minutes. Keep that weekly limit in mind when picking your day - especially if you're juggling work, childcare, or a long drive. Since eligibility depends on classification, confirm the person can have contact visits before planning your week around it.
Reminder: All visits - contact or booth - must be scheduled in person for each session.
For booth visits, the schedule includes morning and afternoon time slots. Morning sessions run 8:30am–9:30am and 9:50am–10:50am. Afternoon sessions are 12:20pm–1:20pm and 1:50pm–2:50pm. Knowing these windows helps you plan your arrival without cutting it close.
Note: Session start times may be approximate, so build in a little flexibility even if you're aiming for a specific slot.
Holidays shake things up. Dutchess County Jail typically releases a holiday visitation memo listing which dates are VISITS and which are NO VISITS. The Christmas 2025 memo, for example, shows a mix of both around the holiday, then notes that after Friday, December 26, 2025, the schedule returns to the normal days: Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. The New Year 2025–2026 memo follows the same pattern - after Friday, January 2, 2026, the schedule resumes back to the normal days of Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Look for that "resume back to the normal days" line when planning the week after a holiday.
The Christmas holiday memo notes that the amended schedule complies with New York State Minimum Standards, part 7008 – Visitation. Even when the schedule shifts for holidays, the facility operates within state visitation standards.
- ✓ Look for the facility’s holiday visitation memo and read the date-by-date list of VISITS vs. NO VISITS.
- ✓ Confirm the exact “resume back to the normal days” date (the memo may spell out when Sundays/Tuesdays/Thursdays return).
- ✓ Re-check the memo before you travel, especially if you’re planning around Christmas or New Year’s week.
- ✓ If your planned day falls inside the memo window, treat the memo as the schedule for that week.
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- ✓ Be signed in 30 minutes before your session starts - no exceptions.
- ✓ Build in extra time because session start times may be approximate.
- ✓ Schedule each visit in person per session (this applies to both contact and booth visits), and do it as early as you can to avoid missing out.
When a holiday memo is active, treat it as a temporary override. The memo will mark specific days as NO VISITS or VISITS and usually includes a reset point - language like the schedule will "resume back to the normal days" after a certain Friday. Once that date passes, you're back to the regular contact-visit days: Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
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