The Alaska Department of Corrections, in conjunction with Vinelink, a national offender and inmate tracking service, maintains a searchable public database of all of the inmates they have in custody. They do not publicize a list of former prisoners. Once an inmate is out of prison, there is no record online of their former status as inmates.
The Alaska Department of Corrections maintains thirteen prisons. The prison that an inmate is assigned to depends on factors such as security classification, remaining time of their sentence, gang affiliation, and location of their residence. The inmates are classifed as minimum, medium and maximum security. Until an offender is convicted in Alaska, they may spend time in a tribal, city or borough jail.
Every convicted offender is assigned a number called an Alaska Department of Corrections Number. This number follows them for life.
If an inmate is released and then re-arrested, convicted, sentenced again, and then put back in prison in Alaska, they will be identified using the same number.
The Alaska Department of Corrections began on January 3, 1959 when it first became a state. While there were prisoners in custody at the time, it was run by the United States Bureau of Prisons.
Alaska’s correctional facilities have a general capacity of 4,815 with a maximum capacity of 4,989. Unsentenced individuals make up more than half of the total incarcerated population.
The following will explain the tricks and hacks you can use to find any inmate in custody with the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Since Alaska does not have its own online inmate search, it contracts with Vinelink Inmate Search Notification System to keep track of inmates, both sentenced and unsentenced, that it has in custody. The Vinelink System is updated daily, and sometimes more often.
In order to search for an inmate, you have to know the exact spelling of their full name, first AND last. The only information you will get after looking up an inmate, is the facility in which they are being held, their age and their race.
You do not need to register an account with Vinelink, although if you are registered you will be able to get the inmate's date of birth and their full Inmate ID# in the listing, as well as get notified when the inmate is moved to another facility, or is released.
There are some short term local jails in Alaska that are for short term or temporary incarcerations, and managed by local police or tribal associations, however almost all offenders, while awaiting court dates for serious crimes, are held in one of Alaska's State Prisons overseen by the Alaska Department of Corrections.
And as mentioned above, you can search for an Alaskan inmate online with Vinelink.
After an arrest, an offender In Alaska is sometimes held in the jail of the city or borough where they were apprehended until they either pay a bond or bail, which entitles them to be released upon a promise to return to court for their trial, or they are held until their trial. Others are held in the facilities run by the Alaska Department of Corrections.
If an offender is found guilty and is given a sentence of short sentence of a week or two, he or she will do their time in that local jail.
If they are found guilty and given a longer sentence, they will be remanded to the Alaska Department of Corrections to do their time. The only exception is if their crime is a federal offense. In that case they will be tried in a federal court and if found guilty, will be remanded to a federal prison.
The Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator includes inmates that are not only in custody, but who have been in custody and have been released (or who died in custody) since 1982.
For inmates in custody prior to 1982, visit the National Archives Records Administration and provide the following information:
Searching by Name
Searching by Name Results
Searching by Number
Searching by Number Result
Things to Know About Federal Inmate Search Results
When someone that is not a US Citizen gets arrested in the United States, and they are here illegally, depending on what state or city they are arrested in, the person may be turned over to ICE.
Many states such as New York and California, as well as hundreds of US cities, have declared themselves 'sanctuary cities' and do not turn over foreigners here illegally, even if they are committing crimes in their jurisdiction.
However, when an alien here illegally is turned over to ICE, and sent to one of the over 100 Immigration Detention Centers in the United States, the only way to try and locate where they are being detained is using the Online Detainee Locator System.
You can look them up using their assigned A-Number.
You can also try and look them up by using their name.
