How to Find Out Where an Inmate Is Before You Plan Your Visit to FCI Allenwood
Before you spend time and money on a trip, take a few minutes to confirm where your loved one is actually housed. People in the federal system get moved, and showing up at the wrong facility means a wasted visit.
If you're planning to visit someone you think is at FCI Allenwood, confirm their location first. Federal inmates get transferred for all kinds of reasons - programs, medical treatment, security concerns - and those moves can happen without warning. A quick check now saves you from traveling to the wrong place.
The easiest way to verify where a federal inmate is housed is the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inmate Locator. It covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present, making it your go-to tool for confirming someone's current facility before you finalize plans.
- Go to the BOP Inmate Locator - use the official BOP search tool for federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present.
- Choose what you’ll search with - if you have it, the register number is usually the cleanest way to pull up the right person; if not, use a name search.
- Enter the details carefully - typos can send you down the wrong path or return no results.
- Review the location result - confirm the facility listed matches FCI Allenwood before you start planning travel.
- Save what you used to find them - write down the exact name spelling and/or register number you searched with so you can re-check later if anything changes.
Searching by register number? Format matters. The BOP Inmate Locator expects five digits, a hyphen, then three digits (#####-###). Get this right and you'll avoid lookup errors.
- ✓ Enter the register number as five digits, a hyphen, then three digits (#####-###)
- ✓ Double-check the digits and the hyphen before you search
- ✓ If you don’t have the register number in the right format, try a name search in the BOP Inmate Locator instead
Note: Release dates in the BOP Inmate Locator may be outdated due to First Step Act sentence recalculations. Check back as your visit date approaches.
Once you've confirmed the person is at FCI Allenwood, you're ready to plan the rest of your visit. Since inmates can be moved for programs, medical care, or security reasons, check their location again before you travel - especially if you're coming from far away. The BOP Inmate Locator gives you that final confirmation.
- ✓ Confirm the facility listed in the BOP Inmate Locator is FCI Allenwood
- ✓ Write down the inmate’s register number (in #####-### format) or the exact name details you used to find them
- ✓ Re-check the BOP Inmate Locator close to your planned travel date to make sure the location hasn’t changed
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