MSP Visitation Center

Approval process – Family and friends who wish to visit an inmate must first complete a visiting questionnaire and be added to the inmate’s approved visitor list.

• The visiting form must be filled out completely and accurately.
• Applicants 18 years and older must submit separate questionnaires.
• Children less than 18 years of age must be included on the same questionnaire as their parent applicant or court-appointed legal guardian. The applicant must answer all questions for each person on the questionnaire. Once approved, the inmate’s children may visit if they are accompanied by any adult family member on the inmate’s visiting list.
• Mail completed forms to:
  Mail Technicians
  400 Conley Lake Road
  Deer Lodge, MT 59722
• All visitors are subject to criminal background checks.
• Visitors may be on only one inmate’s visiting list at a time, unless an exception is granted because both inmates are members of the same immediate family.
• Within 30 days of receiving a questionnaire, a staff member contacts the inmate in writing to let him know whether a prospective visitor’s application has been approved. A disapproved applicant may appeal the decision by:
  • filling out the appeal section on the disapproval form they receive from the inmate
  • mailing it to the second shift captain within 14 days of the postmark on the notice.
• Approved visitors must notify MSP of any changes to their name or address. Visitors must notify MSP visiting staff of their updated information at their first visit following the change.

Conditions of visiting

• Work crews – Inmates on work crews are expected to arrange their visits after work hours.
• Number of visits – Inmates in the general prison population may have four visits each week.
• Number of visitors – No more than five people (including children) may visit each inmate at one time. A visitor may visit no more than one inmate at a time unless the visitor has the prior approval of the second shift captain.

Visiting room capacity – When a visiting room is at maximum capacity, no more visitors are allowed in.

• As more visitors arrive at the Wallace Building, those in the visiting room are allowed one hour and then visits are terminated for local visitors (those within 45 minutes driving time of MSP).
• If this fails to address the waiting list in the Wallace Building, ongoing visits for visitors from further away are terminated.
• Visits will not be terminated less than one hour from the start of the visit because of the overcrowding of a visiting room.