What to wear to visit someone at Travis County Correctional Complex (dress code checklist)

Top Prohibited

• ✓ Transparent clothing or any see-through garments
• ✓ Tube tops, halter tops, strapless tops, or backless tops
• ✓ Muscle shirts or spaghetti-strap tops
• ✓ Seductive clothing
• ✓ Pajamas

• ✓ Shorts shorter than fingertip length (check by standing with your arms straight at your sides)
• ✓ Skirts shorter than knee length
• ✓ Dresses or skirts with high-cut splits

• ✓ Clothing with obscene or offensive language or drawings
• ✓ Clothing showing gang affiliation
• ✓ Clothing showing drugs or alcohol

Travel light. Travis County Correctional Complex doesn't allow outside food or beverages into visitation. Finish any drinks or snacks before you go in, and leave them in the car.

Before you leave home, check any words, graphics, or logos on your clothing. Anything obscene, offensive, or tied to gang affiliation, drugs, or alcohol can get you turned away. You'd have to change and try again.

Practical Tips

• ✓ Go conservative on top: avoid anything see-through, revealing (tube/halter/strapless/backless), or too bare (muscle shirts, spaghetti straps)
• ✓ Skip anything that could be read as “seductive”
• ✓ Leave pajamas at home
• ✓ Choose bottoms that clearly meet the length rules: shorts should not be shorter than fingertip length; skirts should be at least knee length; avoid high-cut splits

• ✓ If you’re 17 or older, bring a government-issued photo ID for check-in

• ✓ Keep a simple backup option in your car (like a plain T-shirt and longer pants) in case your outfit gets flagged
• ✓ If your shorts or skirt are “borderline,” swap to something longer before you leave
• ✓ Avoid clothing with busy graphics - plain, comfortable basics are less likely to cause a problem