In addition, the offender search contains information about prisoners, parolees, and probationers who are currently under supervision, and who have been discharged. It also contains those inmates who have absconded, or escaped.
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 Wisconsin Department of Corrections began in 1850, when the first prison, Waupun, was built.
Today the state of Wisconsin's Prison System, with 10,000 employees, maintains 37 state correctional institutions.
As of the end of 2023 the Washington State DOC oversees approximately 20,000 state inmates, with another 64,000 on parole and probation.
The following will explain the instructions, tricks and hacks you can use to find any inmate in custody with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
The Wisconsin 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, including those released. Inmates in custody have their crimes listed, as well as previous convictions. To look up an inmate (or parolee, or those who have been released), you need the full last name.
NOTE: You first have to agree to the disclaimer page below.
The first set of results if you used the full last name, provided there are more than one with that same name, will list their Name, Birth Year, Race, County of Commitment, Zip Code of Commitment and Status. Click on the Name to get to the inmate's page.
Notice the menu bar at the top. Clicking on each of the tabs, Demographics, Status, Addresses, Movement, Court Cases and Photo Set, will give you all the information about each inmate.
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.
