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Visiting someone in Wyoming's Special Housing Unit (SHU): what families need to know

If your loved one is in Wyoming Correctional Facility's Special Housing Unit (SHU), visitation works differently than general population. The key rule: one non-legal visit per seven-day period.

• 2 min read • doccs.ny.gov
Visiting someone in Wyoming's Special Housing Unit (SHU): what families need to know

People in Wyoming Correctional Facility's SHU are allowed one non-legal visit within a seven-day period, and it has to happen during normal visitation hours. This weekly limit is the rule that trips families up most - especially if you're used to visiting more often in other housing units.

Wyoming counts its visitation week from Sunday through Saturday - not a rolling seven days from your last visit. This matters. If you visit on Tuesday, that counts for that Sunday–Saturday week. Your next non-legal SHU visit would need to fall in a different Sunday–Saturday week.

The SHU weekly limit stacks on top of Wyoming's general daily limit. Even during a week when a SHU visit is allowed, the facility still caps visits at one per incarcerated person per day. You can't "stack" visits on the same day to work around SHU restrictions. Your visit has to fit both rules: no more than one visit that day, and no more than one non-legal SHU visit in that Sunday–Saturday week.

Have questions about legal visits or a special circumstance? Check the official guidance before making the trip. Wyoming's facility page directs visitors to the DOCCS Visitors Page for additional visitation information - that's your safest bet for confirming current rules.

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