Utah Admin. Code R251-706-5 - Processing Visiting Application
(1) A
visiting application shall be completed by inmates who wish to have a visitor.
It is the inmate's responsibility to ensure that the visiting application
information is complete and approved by facility visiting staff prior to the
first visit.
(2) Visiting
applications shall be checked by facility visiting staff through BCI, NLETS,
DMV and local wants and warrants prior to the applicant being considered for
visitation privileges.
(3) Visiting
applications shall be denied by the captain/designee if there is reason to
believe that visits would jeopardize the safety, security, management or
control of the Institution.
(4)
Applications may be denied when an extensive or recent history of criminal
activity exists, or the visitor has:
(a)
transported contraband into or out of a correctional facility;
(b) aided or attempted to aid in an escape
from a jail or correctional facility;
(c) been a crime partner of the inmate
applicant; or
(d) been under the
supervision of UDC for a felony offense.
(5) Visiting application denials may be
challenged by visitor applicants through the deputy warden/designee. If the
visitor applicant is not satisfied with the deputy warden/designee decision, a
second appeal may be made to the warden/designee.
(6) Except for spouses, visitors under 18
years of age shall be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian on the
inmate's approved visiting list.
(7) Visitors 16 years of age and older shall
present positive identification prior to being permitted to visit.
(8) An individual may not be on more than one
inmate's visiting list unless that individual is a member of the immediate
family of all inmates involved and is approved as a visitor by the
warden/designee.
(9) Adoptions,
marriages, or other methods of claiming legal relationships, performed for the
purpose of circumventing existing visiting policies shall be considered
invalid.
(10) Visitors may have
their names removed from any visiting list by sending a written request to the
facility visiting staff.
(11)
Visitors removed from a visiting list at the written request of an inmate or
visitor shall not be reinstated for a 90-day period without prior approval of
the facility visiting staff.
(12)
Except for members of the inmate's immediate family, only one single adult
visitor of the opposite sex shall be permitted to be on the visiting list of
any one inmate at any given time.
(13) Divorced visitors shall provide proof of
divorce to the facility visiting staff before being allowed to visit an inmate
of the opposite sex.
(14) Except
for members of the inmate's immediate family, married persons visiting inmates
of the opposite sex shall be accompanied by one or more of the following, who
shall remain with the visitor for the duration of the visit:
(a) visitor's spouse who is on approved
visiting list;
(b) inmate's
spouse;
(c) inmate's parent
or
(d) other persons approved by
the facility visiting staff.
Notes
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