How can I find out if someone is in jail?

When I recently went looking for someone who I thought was in federal prison I was sure that I would have a near impossible task on my hands but I was wrong. It might have been difficult a few years ago but not anymore. Let me show you how to find someone in prison and get loads of background information about them at the same time.

Step 1: Use the BOP Federal Inmate Lookup

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) provides a website at bop.gov. On the site you will find the BOP federal inmate locater which is a searchable database of all federal inmates since 1982.

Type in the details of the person that you're looking for and click the button to see a list of names together with the prisons where they're being held. When I did this recently the site gave me a long list of inmates because of the common name that I was searching for so I had to find out which one, if any, of the inmates was the person that I was looking for.

Step 2: Get more background information on someone

You may find like I did, that when you've narrowed down your search by race, age and sex you're still left with more than one name and you can't be sure that any one of them is the one you're looking for. You need to get more information on this person.

The BOP site is ok, it's free and it might just tell you everything you need to know. If it doesn't then you should subscribe to a web site that will give you all the information you could ever wish for on prison inmates and anyone else you fancy looking up. These websites gather information from thousands of places all over the Internet and offline too. They are easy to search and when you find the person that you're looking for you can do a full criminal records and background check on them. When you've done this you'll be far more confident that you've found the person that you're looking for.

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