How Do You Find An Incarcerated Person?
Trying to locate which federal or state prison an incarcerated person is in can be like searching for a needle in a complicated bureaucratic haystack, since there are currently over two million inmates in the United States prison system. Although the odds may seem insurmountable for locating an incarcerated individual, there are a few helpful resources to aid you in the search. Conduct a search at the Federal Bureau of Prisons to see if the person is being held in a federal prison. The agency maintains an extensive database of federal inmates who have been incarcerated since 1982. Type information about the incarcerated person you’re looking for in the Bureau of Prisons federal inmate locator. If the individual is in a federal prison, his name will appear along with the location of where he is being held. Check individual state correction facilities at the USA.gov website; it lists the correctional facilities by state, and you can conduct a search on each one if you don’t know which st
