Open the Connecticut DOC inmate search, the state’s official lookup. Type a last name (a first name helps) or the DOC inmate number, then press search. Click the name to see the facility where the person is housed right now.

As a backup, VINELink lets you look up the same person and sign up for a free call, text or email when they move or go home. Our Bridgeport Correctional Center Inmate Search page links both tools.

The DOC daily count for October 25, 2026 (state open data) shows these sites holding accused people. The first number is everyone inside; the second is people not yet sentenced.

• Bridgeport Correctional Center, Bridgeport – Level 4 – 693 total / 533 unsentenced
• Hartford Correctional Center, Hartford – Level 4 – 952 total / 711 unsentenced
• New Haven Correctional Center, New Haven – Level 4 – 512 total / 418 unsentenced
• Corrigan Correctional Center, Uncasville – Level 3/4 – 663 total / 275 unsentenced
• York Correctional Institution, Niantic – Level 2-5 – 889 total / 368 unsentenced
• Garner Correctional Institution, Newtown – Level 4 – 562 total / 245 unsentenced
• Cheshire Correctional Institution, Cheshire – Level 4 – 1205 total / 190 unsentenced
• MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, Suffield – Level 4/5 – 1819 total / 432 unsentenced

Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire also holds accused young men under 22.

Four sites hold sentenced men: Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield, Osborn Correctional Institution and Cybulski Community Reintegration Center in Somers, and Brooklyn Correctional Institution. A Bridgeport arrest will not start at any of them.

• The arresting police department sets the first bond.
• Judicial Branch bail staff can then raise or lower it.
• A judge looks at it again at arraignment, usually the next court day.
• For bonds of $20,000 or less, 10 percent cash is allowed unless the judge says no.
• You may post at the police station, the court, or the DOC jail.
• A bondsman’s fee is not refunded.

Read every step on our bail page.

This jail serves the superior courts in Ansonia, Derby, Milford, Bridgeport, Danbury, Norwalk and Stamford. A Bridgeport city arrest goes to GA 2, 172 Golden Hill Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604 (203-579-6568).

Connecticut keeps no public warrant list. Pending criminal cases show on the Judicial Branch case look-up. For a warrant question, phone the town police where the charge came from.

• Visitors must be approved; see the DOC visiting rules and our visiting guide.
• Calls go out only; families fund an account (phone guide).
• Deposits pay for canteen items (money guide).
• Letters need the full name and inmate number (mail guide).

The main jail line is 475-225-8000. The warden named by the DOC is Jesus Guadarrama.

Children are not held in this jail. Juvenile court handles them, and the Judicial Branch runs the Juvenile Residential Center at Bridgeport for those kept before a hearing.

A federal arrest goes before a U.S. magistrate judge, often at 915 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, CT 06604 (203-579-5861). No bail chart applies; a detention hearing decides release.

The U.S. Marshals choose where the person waits for trial, which can be a jail they contract with. Call the Bridgeport Marshals office at 203-579-5897. After a federal sentence, look the person up on the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

1. Booking fingerprints go to federal systems that ICE checks.
2. ICE may file Form I-247A asking the DOC to notify it or to hold the person.
3. That form seeks up to 48 hours beyond the normal release time, and the clock does not pause for weekends or holidays.
4. Connecticut’s Trust Act, C.G.S. 54-192h, lets staff hold someone only with a judge-signed warrant, certain listed serious convictions, or a terrorism watchlist match. The person must get a copy of the detainer and be told if the DOC will comply.
5. If none of those apply, release happens on schedule.
6. If ICE does take custody, search the ICE detainee locator or call 617-565-4946. The ICE Boston field office covers Connecticut.

The same DOC runs jails and prisons. Sentenced people are classified by risk and needs, then sent to a prison that fits. Watch the move on the DOC inmate search and read about each site on our Connecticut state prisons page.

No. The DOC search does not show booking photos. Members of the press can contact the DOC press office at 860-692-7780 or the town police that made the arrest.

Photos taken by ICE are requested through an ICE FOIA request.

Federal booking photos stay private, but the U.S. Marshals may release one to catch a fugitive.

• Bridgeport Police Department: 203-581-5100
• State Police Troop G, Bridgeport: 203-696-2500

Dial 911 in an emergency.