Bay State Correctional Center
28 Clark Street, Norfolk, Massachusetts 02056
Bay State Correctional Center Visiting Information:
The Massachusetts department of correction encourages family and friends who assert a positive influence to communicate and visit with an inmate.
Visiting Hours
Monday, Tuesday and Friday 1:15PM to 8:15PM
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday CLOSED - NO VISITS
Holiday visitation will be assigned as needed.
Visiting days and times may be subject to change. Please call the facility to verify visiting schedules.
There will be no processing of visitors, due to shift change, between the following time frame: 2:30PM to 3:15PM
Processing of visitors, into the Visiting Room, shall not occur during the following time frames:
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 3:45PM until count clears
Sunday, and Holidays 10:30AM until count clears
Deadline for Processing into Visiting Room
Visitors will not be processed for visits thirty (30) minutes prior to the end of each visiting period, as follows:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 8:00PM
Sunday, and Holidays 4:00PM
To view more information about visiting an inmate in Massachusetts visit the Departments website here, or contact the facility at the telephone number provided above.
For the many questions about inmate’s money accounts, please note the following information:
Inmate Money
Inmates have two accounts, a personal account and a
savings account. Upon admission, if an inmate is in
possession of any money, it will be placed in the in-
mate’s personal account. Inmates who obtain facility
jobs, also called work assignments, are paid for those
jobs. Inmates who work for MassCorr, the Department
correctional industries program, are paid an hourly
rate. Inmates who are assigned to jobs other than in-
dustries program jobs are paid a daily rate. Half of the
money that an inmate earns from a job is placed in
his/her personal account and the other half is placed
in his/her savings account. This division of inmate
pay into the personal and savings accounts is dictated
by state law. Inmates may spend the money in their
personal account on canteen items or may send it to
family and friends. The money that is placed in the
savings account is given to inmates upon discharge
from the Department. Inmates ordinarily cannot gain
access to their savings account money while they are
serving their sentences in the Department so that they
will have money to spend in the community for basic
necessities upon reentry. There are three exceptions to
this general rule. These exceptions are for inmates
who are serving life sentences for any offense; inmates
who have been found to be Sexually Dangerous Per-
sons and are civilly committed to the Massachusetts
Treatment Center from a day to life; and inmates for
whom a Superintendent has determined there exists a
compelling need to gain access to those funds.
Family members and/or friends of an inmate may
arrange to have money deposited in an inmate’s per-
sonal account. Money must be in an acceptable form
for it to be deposited in the inmate’s account: money
orders (completed with yo
ur address, the inmate’s
name and commitment number
), certified checks, or
personal checks. Cash is not allowed under any cir-
cumstances. Money orders, personal checks, and certi-
fied checks are allowed to be mailed to inmates. When
doing this, please remember to include the inmate’s
commitment number on the order. Please keep in
mind that personal checks can take up to 10 business
days before being cleared by the bank. People may
deposit money orders and checks for inmates in a des-
ignated box at each facility or send them to the inmate
via the US postal service.
For additional information regarding Accounts, please
refer to
103 CMR 405, Inmate Funds
which is accessi-
ble at the Department’s internet website.