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Visiting HMP Leeds

You MUST have

Your Visiting Order
Your identification

You CAN have

Up to £20 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.

In the event that you have to share news of concern to the person you are visiting, please inform a member of staff so that support and care can be communicated and organised for the person you have visited.

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
Session	Start	Finish	No entry after
AM 1	8.30am	9.45am	9.00am
AM 2	10.15am	11.30am	10.45am
PM 1	1.30pm	2.45pm	2.15pm
PM 2	3.15pm	4.15pm	3.45pm
Tuesday, 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

Cancelling your visit

You can cancel your visit through the Jigsaw Visitors Centre. You need:

The name and number of the person you are visiting
Your name
The Reference Number

The reference number is very important to make sure you cancel the right visit.