Visitor's room

"Phoenix Wright"

- Smile. You're on candid camera.

The visitor's room is a place for detainees of the detention center and prison to meet visitors. Although visitation is usually limited to a suspect's defense attorney and closely-related individuals, prosecutors have access to all prisoners via the visitor's room. Visiting hours are typically from 9:00 to 16:00, but lawyers have been allowed to meet their clients until 19:00. The rules for detainees while meeting with a visitor seem rather lax, despite the presence of a guard, as on multiple occasions, detainees and visitors have been allowed to freely exchange objects without intervention. Not even the drastic physical changes caused by a member of the Fey clan performing the Kurain Channeling Technique have drawn so much as a comment from the guard.

Visits by defense attorneys
"Phoenix Wright"

- This guard monitors the visitor's room. He hasn't moved an inch since I came in. A real pro.

Wright first went to the visitor's room to visit Maya Fey when she was accused of murdering her sister Mia Fey. Justice's first visit was to see his first client, Wocky Kitaki. Athena Cykes's first visit was to see another of Justice's clients, Damian Tenma. She later visited her own first client, Juniper Woods. Gregory Edgeworth's last visits were to see Issei Tenkai during the investigation of the IS-7 Incident, which led directly to his death.

When visiting his clients, Wright often wonders if the guard in the room is bored, but has no way of telling since he seldom pays the defense attorney any attention. When Justice visits his clients, he often wonders whether the guard in the room is even breathing. However, unlike with Wright, the guard does actually talk to Justice on occasion. A security camera is the only other examinable object in the room, which Wright and Justice have each thought to be watching them.

Visits by prosecutors
Prosecutors Godot and Miles Edgeworth have visited the detention center. The former used such visits to keep an eye on Morgan Fey after she was moved from Solitary Cell 13, whereby he learned of her second plot to kill Maya Fey. The latter has been in the visitor's room several times on both sides. Notably, 15 years after his father Gregory's death, Miles was put on trial for the murder of Robert Hammond, and Wright would visit him there to represent him. In 2018, Miles observed Wright conversing with his client Matt Engarde. A year later, Miles met with Iris in the visitor's room when he briefly took over one of Wright's cases. Later on, he used the visitor's room to talk to Sōta Sarushiro and Issei Tenkai as a temporary assistant to their lawyer, Tateyuki Shigaraki. Miles was later detained for helping Kay Faraday evade arrest, and Hakari Mikagami visited him to talk about his motives for protecting Faraday.

When Maya Fey was accused of murder for the second time, Franziska von Karma set up hidden cameras in the detention center to take photographs of Maya channeling Mia. She went on the use these pictures to prove the existence of the Kurain Channeling Technique in a courtroom trial.

Note

 * Mia Fey is the only protagonist in the Ace Attorney series to date to not be shown visiting the detention center at some point during their career (thus excluding her post-mortem visits via being channeled by Maya).