OR DOC – Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI)

OR DOC – Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 541-881-5000

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Snake River Correctional located at 777 Stanton Blvd in Ontario, OR are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

The SRCI is a mixed-custody, multi-security state prison housing about 2,350 medium security, 154 minimum-security inmates and 510 special housing beds (administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation, intensive management, and infirmary). SRCI has several unique features such as decentralized inmate services that enable the department to separate various offenders into discrete housing units. It also has a comprehensive corridor system, connecting housing, program and work areas so that inmates can move from one area to another at all times of day under all types of weather conditions.

Inmates here are provided vocational courses in various building and construction trades. Furthermore, inmates can work within the prison in various supportive roles, such as custodial work, preparing food and working in the kitchen, and providing landscaping maintenance. Additional employment is provided through the Oregon Corrections Enterprise Industries where inmates are provided with a wage for working in a sign shop, in laundry, and in telephone customer service. Parenting programs and educational courses that allow inmates to earn a GED and obtain an adult basic education are also available.

• Incentive housing
• Building construction technology
• Institution work programs
• Trades programs
• Education, cognitive, and parenting programs

• Contact center
• Laundry
• Sign shop

visitation Info

OR DOC – Snake River Correctional Institution – Visitation

Medium Facility Visiting Hours

• Wednesday through Sunday 7:50 to 10:40 a.m. MST 12:15 to 3:45 p.m. MST

Minimum Facility Visiting Hours

• Saturday and Sunday and Recognized State of Oregon holidays 7:50 to 10:40 a.m. MST 12:15 to 3:45 p.m. MST

Identification (ID)

• For visitors ages 15 and up A driver’s license, passport, state ID card, military ID card, school ID card or other official government ID card
• Appropriate clothing 
  • DO NOT WEAR BLUE DENIM OR BLUE CLOTHING OF ANY KIND. This is for security purposes since inmates themselves wear blue and blue denim clothing.
  • Dress conservatively. Dresses, skirts, jumpers, culottes, and shorts are permitted if they are worn at knee level or lower when standing. Footwear and undergarments MUST BE WORN.
  • Inappropriate clothing includes suggestive, revealing, low-cut or skimpy clothing. Hats, wrap-around skirts, halter tops, sheer or see-through clothing are not allowed. Other types of provocative clothing; camoflage of any kind; and clothing, hairstyles, insignias or other paraphernalia associated with security threat groups or that are inflammatory in nature are also not allowed. 
  • TIP: Leave an extra set of clothes in your car if you are not sure that your clothing meets the requirements.
• Quarters
  • You may need to store items in a visiting locker, which requires a quarter to work.
  • You may also wish to bring quarters for use at the vending machine in the visiting room (no more than $15 in quarters is allowed).
• Metal Detector Medical Exception Form 
  • If you have a medical condition that makes it unsafe for you to walk through a metal detector, talk to your doctor about documentation and have them complete the Metal Detector Medical Exception Form linked above.

What to Leave at Home or in a Facility Locker

• Non-emergency medications, prescribed or non-prescribed, are not allowed in the visiting room. 
• Smoking of any kind is not allowed within a correctional institution or on State of Oregon property, so please leave any tobacco products, vapes, etc. behind. 
• Cash or other negotiable instruments other than $15 in quarters. You cannot bring checkbooks, credit and/or debit cards into the visiting area. 
• Cell phones, pagers, or other electronic devices are also not allowed in the visiting area.
• Weapons of any kind should not be brought into a facility.
• Metal buttons, body piercings, jewelry, underwire bras, and some shoes may activate the metal detector. Avoid wearing metal as much as possible or be prepared to remove certain items in order to pass through the metal detector successfully. Remember that undergarments MUST BE WORN at all times.
• Outer garments such as raincoats, ski jackets, and other garments that are lined are not allowed inside the visiting room.
• Hats of any kind are not allowed to be worn inside the facility.