Michigan State Departament Of Corrections Inmate Search

Michigan has around 108 facilities, with 20 state prison facilities and 88 jail facilities. The rate of incarceration in Michigan per 100,000 people is as follows: 

• Incarceration rates at 381 
• violent crimes at 437 
• Property crime rates at 1,585,  
• Probatory rates at 1,816 
• parolees at 172 

Michigan has a prison population of 38,053 and a jail population of 13,488. Both parole and probation populations stand at 160,000. The state employs around 11,900 people with an average annual budget of $2,019,056,200. 

Michigan Offenders Inmate Roster

Michigan State uses an offender tracking system (OTIS) within the Michigan Department of corrections. However, you must agree to its terms and conditions before accessing it.  

You will also need some information on the inmate you are tracking to conduct an effective search. This information includes the inmate's name, MDOC number, sex, age, race, tattoos, and any other information that may help make the inmate stand out, including scars and tattoos. 

After providing the necessary information, you will be provided with a list of offenders, where you can choose who fits your description. In certain instances, you may have the option of mugshots, which may make your work way easier. 

Some of the information that may not be readily available on the website includes: 

• All the information made exempt under the freedom of information act 
• Information on people that have not yet been sentenced 
• Information on inmates held in county jails, or city lockups 
• Photographs of offenders who left the system before electronic photographs were allowed 

In case the OTIS system bears no fruit, you also have the option of other third-party sites, including Info tracer. 

Getting in Touch with an Inmate 

The current company working to provide telephone services for inmates within Michigan State is the Global Tellink Corporation (GTL); the service allows inmates up to 20 personal telephone numbers, which act as the inmates allowed contact numbers. 

There are several ways inmates can make telephone calls, including: 

• Collect Calls- Depending on whether the number is approved, the innate has the option of making a collect call with the receiver paying for the fee. Collect calls cannot be made to cell phones, office phones, hospital phones or other commercial numbers. 
• Prepaid Collect- GTL allows friends and loved ones to set up calling accounts to their numbers, such that in case the inmate makes a call to one of these numbers, the charges are deducted from the receiver's account 
• Debit- This allows the inmate to control their account, where they can purchase debit minutes through the institutional disbursement process. To get this option, you can make a phone call to GTL at 855-466-2832. 

Sending Money to an Inmate in Michigan Prison System 

There is a safe and secure way of sending money to inmates in Michigan through the Access Corrections Platform, which allows for app and telephone deposits. All deposits are made with the help of credit cards or debit cards and can be made 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

Some prison facilities in Michigan also have the option of in-person deposits, where you either drop a cheque or money order at the inmate's prison. You also can use Cash Pay Today, which will provide drop-off locations for In-person deposits. 

All money orders and cheques will take around seven business days to reflect in the inmates' accounts. 

Friends and loved ones can get deposit forms for cheques and money orders through the Access Corrections portal and print them for use. Michigan also allows mailing cheques or money orders to the inmates' accounts. All cheques and money orders will be subject to a 10-day hold after the transaction is processed before reflecting in the inmate's account. However, after ten days, money will be available the next day. 

Visiting an Inmate at Michigan Prison System 

All people intending to visit Michigan State prison must do so through the Path Scheduler. Here only people cleared and approved by the Michigan Department of corrections for a visit will be allowed to access the facility in question.  

All visits must be scheduled at least 72 hours before the visit. The visits are limited to two hours, with a maximum of four visitors per inmate. 

The inmate must complete a visitor list that will help identify the immediate family members plus a maximum of ten other potential visitors. Visitors must be on the list to be eligible for a visit which will be pre-approved by the facility personnel. 

Visitor requirements include: 

• The visitor is not subject to current restrictions by the facility 
• The visitor is not a prisoner or a former prisoner in any jurisdiction. However, a former prisoner may be eligible for a visit subject to the warden's approval for immediate family. 
• The visitor is not on probation except for immediate family members, subject to wardens' approval.