Visiting rules for ODOC employees and volunteers at North Fork: who can visit and when
If you work for ODOC or a private prison — or you're a former employee or approved volunteer — you'll face extra approval steps before visiting someone at North Fork. Here's who can visit and what sign-offs you'll need.
Volunteers can visit incarcerated family members or friends at North Fork, but only if your relationship existed before their incarceration. Submit a request to the facility volunteer coordinator with evidence showing the relationship was already in place. The coordinator forwards your request to the facility head with a recommendation, and the facility head makes the final call.
- ✓ Submit your request to the facility volunteer coordinator
- ✓ Include evidence that your relationship existed prior to the incarceration
Current and former ODOC/private prison employees face stricter rules than standard visitors. If you've left employment - whether through resignation, termination, or retirement - you won't be added to the visiting list as a non-family visitor for at least three years. Current employees can visit an incarcerated family member, but only with approval from both your supervisor and the facility head. In those cases, the facility head can also waive the background check requirement.
Key restriction: Former ODOC or private prison employees must wait at least three years before being added as a non-family visitor.
- ✓ Get approval from your supervisor (current employees visiting incarcerated family)
- ✓ Get approval from the involved facility head (required for current employees)
- ✓ Know that only the facility head can waive the background check requirement in this situation
- Confirm you qualify under the special rule - Volunteers need a relationship that existed before incarceration; current employees need to be visiting an incarcerated family member.
- Gather what you’ll submit - Volunteers should be ready to provide evidence of the prior relationship along with the request.
- Route the request the right way - Volunteers submit the request to the facility volunteer coordinator, who forwards it to the facility head with a recommendation.
- Complete the employee approval chain - If you’re a current employee, get supervisor approval and then facility head approval; the facility head can also decide whether to waive the background check requirement.
What you'll need: Volunteers should include documentation of the prior relationship. Employees need supervisor approval before the facility head will review the request.
Practical Tips
- ✓ If you’re a volunteer, don’t submit the request without evidence your relationship existed before incarceration
- ✓ Send the volunteer request to the facility volunteer coordinator so it can be forwarded for the facility head’s decision
- ✓ If you’re a current employee visiting an incarcerated family member, secure supervisor approval and facility head approval
- ✓ Don’t assume the background check will be waived; only the facility head can waive it
Plan ahead: Former employees should expect a three-year wait before being added as a non-family visitor.
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