In addition, the inmate search, more specifically called the Offender Tracking Information System (OTIS) contains information about prisoners, parolees, and probationers who are currently under supervision, or who have been discharged but are still within three years of their supervision discharge date. It also contains those inmates who have absconded or escaped. It does not contain information about offenders, former inmates, who are beyond that three-year period.
Information about offenders who have been off supervision for more than three years can be found on the Michigan State Police ICHAT Internet Criminal History Access Tool.
The actual 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 Michigan State Prison System began in 1839, when the first state prison in Michigan opened in Jackson.
Today the state of Michigan Prison System maintains 31 state prisons.
With a staff of 15,000 correctional workers, as of the end of 2023 they oversee approximately 43,000 inmates, with another 150,000 on parole or supervised release.
The following will explain the instructions, tricks and hacks you can use to find any inmate in custody with the Michigan Department of Corrections.
The Michigan Department of Corrections provides a limited amount of information you may want to know about any inmate in their system, however they do list every inmate. Inmates in custody have their crimes listed, as well as previous convictions. They also list all inmates who have been discharged.
To look up an inmate, you need the full last name.
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.
