Visiting HMP Leeds
You MUST have
- Your Visiting Order
- Your identification
You CAN have
- Up to £15 in loose change (no notes) for purchasing refreshments from the Visits Tea Bar (run by Jigsaw staff, for Jigsaw projects).
- Your locker key (lockers are £1 which you get back afterward).
- Nappies, baby wipes and feeding bottles with formula milk. No juice is allowed but you can take an empty bottle or a feeder cup (with a top) and purchase juice on the visit.
Booking in at the Jigsaw Centre
Apart from evening visits and 8.30am visits you will be able to book in at the Centre (when the Centre is closed please report direct to the Main Gate).
Jigsaw staff will take you through the booking-in process which includes: checking and validating your Visiting Order, checking our identification and fingerprints. If it’s your first visit your photograph will be taken for future reference and we will spend time with you preparing for your visit. If you are visiting someone on remand, you will fill in a Remand slip in the Centre. You can use the lockers here or at the Prison.
If you have any worries, please talk to Jigsaw staff. Remember we are an independent charity working to support people visiting their loved ones in prison.
Going into the Prison
- Once through the main door to the Prison, turn right and make your way to the counter.
- Uniformed staff will book you in and check your Visiting Order and Identification.
- If you are on medication and need to take it into the Visits Room, please inform uniformed staff.
- You will then be searched. You will have to empty your pockets and be given a pat-down search by a uniformed member of staff of the same sex. You will wait here until you are called into the room for your visit.
The Visits Room
A Prison Officer will call you into the Visits Room by calling out the surname of the prisoner you are visiting. You will be given a table number to sit at when you enter the room. The person you are seeing will be brought over after you have sat down. He will be wearing a coloured bib and will sit at one side of the table with visitors opposite. There are three chairs for visitors, so if you have more children, they will have to sit on adults knees.
Food and drink can be purchased from the Visits Tea Bar; this is run by Jigsaw staff. We receive some of the proceeds and this helps us with staff costs etc. Hot drinks and soup are served in cups with lids. For security reasons you will need to keep the lids on drinks throughout the visit. Toilets and baby changing facilities are available in the waiting area outside the Visits Room.
There are CCTV cameras in use in the Visits Room and your visit can be terminated at any time by Prison staff if your behaviour is not appropriate.
Visiting times
| Monday - Wednesday and Friday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Session | Start | Finish | No entry after |
| AM 1 | 8.30am | 9.45am | 9.00am |
| AM 2 | 10.15am | 11.30am | 10.45am |
| PM 1 | 1.45pm | 2.45pm | 2.15pm |
| PM 2 | 3.15pm | 4.15pm | 3.45pm |
| Thursday | |||
| Session | Start | Finish | No entry after |
| PM 1 | 1.45pm | 2.45pm | 2.15pm |
| PM 2 | 3.15pm | 4.15pm | 3.45pm |
| Saturday and Sunday visits | |||
| Session | Start | Finish | No entry after |
| AM 1 | 9.00am | 10.00am | 9.30am |
| AM 2 | 10.30am | 11.30am | 11.00am |
| PM 1 | 1.45pm | 2.45pm | 2.15pm |
| PM 2 | 3.15pm | 4.15pm | 3.45pm |
| Evening visits - Wednesday & Thursday only | |||
| Session | Start | Finish | No entry after |
| Evening | 5.45pm | 7.00pm | 6.15pm |