visiting rooms
Where guests meet
Visiting rooms are spaces in prisons, jails, or similar institutions where inmates meet with family, friends, or legal counsel.
The term emphasizes the room's function rather than its features—typically sparse, monitored, and designed to allow contact while maintaining security: She waited nervously in the visiting room for her brother to be brought in.
- guestWelcomed visitor
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- waiting areaDesignated lingering space
- prisonConfinement for offenders
family reunion · hospitality · reception · lounge · sitting · calling · touring · exploring · wandering · threshold · doorway · greeting · welcome · stranger · host · sofa · chairs · conversation
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- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- California PrisonsSan Quentin, Alcatraz, state prison, state prisons, correctional facilities
- psych wardspsychiatric hospital, psych ward, mental ward, locked ward, padded cell
visiting roomsbedrooms
Rooms for sleeping
inner sanctum · private residence · living quarters · master suite · personal space
visiting roomsliving quarters
Residential rooms or space
permanent residence · dormitories · cells · bedrooms · sleeping quarters
visiting roomssolitary confinement
Isolated imprisonment in cell
isolation cells · restricted areas · locked wards · common rooms · day rooms
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