Prisons will allow visitors for first time this weekend since CO strike
Photo by Tom Rivers: The Albion Correctional facility, shown this evening on State School Road, will allow visitors this weekend.
Visitors will be allowed to meet with incarcerated people in the state prisons this weekend, the first time since thousands of corrections officers went on strike about a month ago. The strike lasted about three weeks.
There are 42 state prisons and all will allow visitors this weekend, except for Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, Franklin County.
The visitations will resume for weekends only, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced today.
“The length of visits may be capped due to the volume of visitors expected,” DOCCS stated.
At the Albion Correctional Facility, visiting hours are from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with the latest arrival time at 2 p.m.
At the Orleans Correctional Facility, the visiting hours are from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. with the latest arrival at 2 p.m.
