Allan B. Polunsky Unit, 3872 FM 350, Livingston, TX 77351, USA

This is your way as a visitor!
1: You’re passing the sign shown below!
2: Your car will be searched!
3: You will be searched!
4: You will see the incarcerated person!
Checkpoint 1:
You’ll pass this sign, keep right and drive down the concrete road.

Checkpoint 2:
You will have to wait under the roof, turn off the motor while doing so. You will be asked who you want to see (so make sure to have the inmates name and ID ready). At this checkpoint the guard will also search your car, trunk, motor, passenger compartment and glove compartment (Don’t get out of the car before you’ve been told to do so). Make sure that you have nothing in the car that might seem like a threat to the safety of the prison (Knife, gun, rope, ammunition…).

Checkpoint 3:
Put all your personal belongings in the plastic boxes in front of the building, like shoes, belt, car keys, jewelry, …, enter the building and pass the metal detector (DON’T use the toilet before you’ve been checked). Lift up your feet, pull out the pockets, … just like at the airport. The guards will take your ID, but you are allowed to have your own clothing, $25 in Quarters (per visitor) in a seethrough plastic bag and your car keys with you! (No pictures, notes, cell phones, whatsoever are allowed, leave them in your car). There will be an automat to change notes into coins, so you can buy refreshments in the visitation room, but you better don’t rely on that machine, most of the time it’s broken or empty (Better get your $25 from a bank in Livingston itself).

On the right you can see the concrete path between checkpoint #3 and the main building.

After passing all the doors and check points you will be seated in front of one of those cages. They all have numbers, so make sure to be in front of the right one, for the guards will get the incarcerated person and put him into that certain cage (Don’t try to talk to other people, this would end your visit immediately).

The incarcerate person will be brought into the cage, the guards will take the handcuffs off of him and after that you will be able to talk to him through the phone! You will be able to buy snacks and drinks or go to the bathroom, the incarcerated person will not! You are also allowed to buy some food for him (but only once), please listen carefully to what the guard says (You are not allowed to touch the food yourself).

A regular visit at Polunsky will last two hours, but if you live more than 300 miles away from Polunsky, you will be able to get a „Special visit„, which will be four hours on two consecutive days, so eight hours in total, once a month (But always be sure to be there early, for it takes a while to get the incarcerated person out of his cell).

The drive from Livingston, where you will most likely stay overnight, to Polunsky.