How to get information on someone in jail or prison

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CITY OR COUNTY JAIL

Locate the state, then the city or county where you think they are being held.


SELECT A STATE

STATE PRISON

Locate the state where you think they are being held.


SELECT A STATE

FEDERAL PRISON

You must first go to any Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.


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How to get information on someone in jail or prison


We’ve designed JailExchange so that you can find adults incarcerated in all 9,000+ jails and prisons in America.

On all of the JailExchange facility pages, when available, we have links to everything from their arrest, how to mail or visit them, what things you can send them and much, much more.

Begin your search for a jail or prison facility or an inmate or arrestee here: