What Happens If the Visiting Room Gets Crowded at Wyoming Correctional Facility
When the visiting room at Wyoming Correctional Facility fills up, staff follow a specific order for ending visits to free space. Here's how it works—so you know what to expect if your visit gets cut short.
When the visiting room gets too crowded, Wyoming Correctional Facility follows a step-by-step process. Staff start by asking for volunteers - visitors willing to end their visit early. If that doesn't free up enough space, they move to mandatory terminations based on travel distance and time spent visiting. Local visitors (those who live within 100 miles) are next. If volunteering doesn't solve the problem, local visits can be ended after three hours using a first-in, first-out approach - whoever arrived earliest gets ended first. Still crowded? The same three-hour rule applies to visitors who traveled more than 100 miles.
Before enforcing any time-based rules, staff ask if anyone will leave voluntarily. They're trying to make room without forcing anyone out. Only when there aren't enough volunteers do the mandatory termination rules kick in.
If volunteers don't free up enough space, staff can start ending local visits - those from people who live within 100 miles of the facility. The cutoff is three hours. Visits are ended in first-in, first-out order. If your visit started earlier than someone else's and you've hit the three-hour mark, yours may be ended first to open up space.
If the room is still overcrowded after local visits have been ended, the policy moves to long-distance visitors - those who traveled more than 100 miles. The same rules apply: visits can be terminated after three hours, first-in, first-out. So even if you drove hours to get there, your visit could be cut short if it started early and space is tight.
Some visits get extra protection. If your visit was approved with special permission - or if the person you're visiting hasn't had a visitor in the last six months - staff are supposed to give your situation special consideration before ending your visit. The Superintendent or Officer of the Day reviews these cases before any termination for overcrowding. It's meant to ensure those visits aren't cut short without careful thought.
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