Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Corrections
Title R251 - Administration
Rule R251-706 - Inmate Visiting
Section 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:

(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: