Corrections

Visitation rule set A facility's published visiting rules: how visitor applications are screened, which relationship an...

Lockdown A hold a facility places on a housing unit, or the whole facility, that stops visits until it is lif...

Visiting restriction A time-limited limit on visits: a visitor banned from visiting, a person in custody limited to non-c...

Visiting privilege A person in custody's current right to receive social visits: active, suspended or withdrawn, with h...

Approved visitor list Everyone currently approved to visit one person in custody. A facility may limit how many friends ca...

Visitor approval A facility's decision that a named visitor may visit a named person in custody, for a set period. Th...

Professional visit A visit by someone coming in an official role: legal counsel, a consular officer, clergy or a casewo...

Video visit A custody visit held over video: from a station at the facility, or from the visitor's own device wh...

Non-contact visit A custody visit through a screen or glass partition, with no physical contact. Also called a closed...

Contact visit A custody visit where the visitors and the person in custody sit together in the same room, watched...

Custody visit One booked meeting between a person in custody and their approved visitors, at a set time, in a visi...

Visiting room A room, screened booth or video station inside a visiting area where visits take place. Each one off...

Visiting area The part of a facility visitors are let into, such as a visiting hall. It has a capacity, holds the...

Housing unit The part of a facility where people in custody live, such as a block or a wing. A lockdown is placed...

Person in custody A person a prison, remand centre, detention centre or jail is holding, either waiting for trial (on...