Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 201 - Corrections Department › Title II - Institutions › Chapter 20 - Institutions Administration › Rule 201-20.3 - Visits to Incarcerated Individuals

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Visiting is a privilege which allows incarcerated individuals to
				  maintain and strengthen relationships with family members and friends. Though visits
				  are encouraged, institutions' space, schedules, personnel constraints, treatment
				  considerations, or other safety and security issues of the institutions and their
				  operations may result in limiting the number and length of visits. Visitation is
				  additionally governed by the provisions of department of corrections policy
				  OP-MTV-04.
(1)
Definitions.
"Application"
means a written application
				  identifying the visitor and the visitor's relationship to the incarcerated
				  individual.
"Background investigation"
means the process by
				  which central visiting authority staff verify the accuracy of a visitor's
				  application for any reason.
"Central visiting authority"
or
"CVA"
means the department office that conducts the visitor
				  application approval process.
"Extended family"
means the incarcerated
				  individual's aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, great-grandparents,
				  great-grandchildren, and in-laws.
"Group"
means a family unit (e.g., aunt, uncle
				  and minor nieces and nephews) residing at the same address.
"Immediate family"
means an incarcerated
				  individual's spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, child, grandparent, grandchild
				  (when minors become adults, they will be required to complete the formal visiting
				  application process), established legal guardian or other who acted in place of
				  parents, and step-or half-relation if the step- or half-relation and the
				  incarcerated individual were raised as cohabiting siblings.
"Incarcerated individual"
means a person who has
				  been committed to the custody of the department of corrections or to a judicial
				  district department of correctional services.
"Personal search"
means a pat-down search on top
				  of the visitor's clothes or the nonintrusive use of an electronic search
				  process.
"Visiting list"
means the screened list of
				  approved visitors with authorized visiting privileges at all department of
				  corrections institutions.
(2)
Schedule.
Each department of corrections institution will structure
				a visiting schedule allowing visitation for a minimum of four days per week. Each
				institution's visiting room will be open a minimum of four hours on each authorized
				day of visiting. The warden will designate the time for visiting on certain
				days/holidays and advise the incarcerated individuals. The incarcerated individual
				is responsible for informing the visitor of the days and hours for
				visitation.
(3)
Authorized
				visitors.
a. The central visiting
				authority will establish an approved visiting list for each incarcerated individual.
				This visiting list remains valid when the incarcerated individual is transferred to
				another institution.
b. To meet facility
				design limitations and security considerations, the visiting list shall be limited
				to the following individuals:
(1) Immediate family
				members.
(2) A total of six other
				individuals or groups who are the incarcerated individual's friends or extended
				family members.
(3) Minor children under
				the immediate supervision of their parent or legal guardian. The minor children of
				an incarcerated individual shall also be allowed to visit under the immediate
				supervision of any adult on the incarcerated individual's approved visiting
				list.
c. Limitation. An
				individual on the approved visiting list of one incarcerated individual shall not be
				on the approved visiting list of another incarcerated individual, regardless of the
				location(s) of the incarcerated individuals. An exception may only be granted
				pursuant to 20.3(5)
"b."