Visitor Limits & How Often You Can Visit Someone at Imperial County Jail
Planning a visit at Imperial County Jail? A couple of simple limits determine who can come in with you and how often you can visit each week. Here are the rules that usually trip families up, plus a few ways to plan around them.
At Imperial County Jail, each inmate is allowed a maximum of two visitors per visit. If more than two people want to visit, you will need to rotate who goes in, because the front desk counts visitors per inmate, per visit.
Kids can affect that two-person limit depending on age. Any child who can walk counts as one of your two visitors, just like an adult. Babies-in-arms don't count toward the limit, but there's still a cap: no more than two babies-in-arms per inmate during a visit.
Imperial County Jail gives inmates a baseline amount of visiting time each week. Inmates are entitled to a minimum of two visits per week, totaling one hour per inmate each week. Think of it as a weekly time allotment split across two visits.
There's also a daily limit that affects how you use that weekly time. An inmate can only have one visit per day. So even if multiple family members want to stop by, you can't stack visits on the same day to get them all in.
Planning tip: Because only one visit is allowed per day, the two weekly visits must happen on two separate days. Those two visits add up to the one-hour weekly minimum total.
Practical Planning
- ✓ Count any child who can walk as one of the two allowed visitors.
- ✓ Do not count babies-in-arms toward the two-visitor limit, but keep it to no more than two babies-in-arms per inmate.
- ✓ Decide who is going in before you arrive, especially if you are coming with kids, so you do not have to reorganize at the door.
- Pick two separate visit days. The jail allows no more than one visit per day, so you will need two different days to use the two weekly visits.
- Plan around the one-hour weekly total. Your two visits together total one hour for the week, so coordinate with other family members if you are sharing that time.
- Rotate visitors if you have a larger group. With a maximum of two visitors per visit, decide ahead of time which two people are visiting on each day.
For visitation information at the Regional Adult Detention Facility (RADF), call (442) 265-2266. This is also the quickest way to double-check how your group will be counted if you're visiting with a mix of adults, walking children, and babies-in-arms.
Note: Bringing children or infants? Call ahead so you know exactly who counts toward the two-visitor limit and how the babies-in-arms cap is enforced before you make the trip.
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