The Michigan Department of Corrections runs the search for people in Michigan state prisons. Here is how to use it, what it covers, and where to look if the person is not there.
- Agency
- Michigan Department of Corrections
- Official search
- OTIS offender search
How to search the MDOC inmate list
The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) runs a public search called OTIS offender search.
- OTIS covers people who are or were in a Michigan prison, on parole or on probation under MDOC supervision.
- Only people under MDOC jurisdiction or supervision in the last three years appear.
Michigan state prisons we list
We do not copy the Michigan prison inmate list yet. These are the state prisons in our Michigan directory, with address, phone and visiting basics. Use the department's search above to find a person.
- Alger Correctional Facility State prison in Munising
- Baraga Correctional Facility State prison in Baraga
- Bay Pines Center State prison in Escanaba
- Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility State prison in Ionia
- Carson City Correctional Facility State prison in Carson City
- Center for Forensic Psychiatry State prison in Saline
- Central Michigan Correctional Facility State prison in St Louis
- Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center State prison in Jackson
- Chippewa Correctional Facility State prison in Kincheloe
- Cooper Street Correctional Facility State prison in Jackson
- Detroit Detention Center State prison in Detroit
- Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility State prison in Muskegon Heights
- G Robert Cotton Correctional Facility State prison in Jackson
- Gus Harrison Correctional Facility State prison in Adrian
- Ionia Correctional Facility State prison in Ionia
- Kinross Correctional Facility State prison in Kincheloe
- Lakeland Correctional Facility State prison in Coldwater
- Macomb Correctional Facility State prison in Lenox Township
- Marquette Branch Prison State prison in Marquette
- Muskegon Correctional Facility State prison in Muskegon
- Newberry Correctional Facility State prison in Newberry
- Oaks Correctional Facility State prison in Manistee
- Parnall Correctional Facility State prison in Jackson
- Richard A Handlon Correctional Facility State prison in Ionia
- Saginaw Correctional Facility State prison in Freeland
- Shawono Center State prison in Grayling
- Special Alternative Incarceration Facility State prison in Chelsea
- St. Louis Correctional Facility State prison in St Louis
- Thumb Correctional Facility State prison in Lapeer
- Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility State prison in Ypsilanti
- Woodland Center Correctional Facility State prison in Whitmore Lake
State prison, county jail or federal prison?
The Michigan Department of Corrections holds people serving state prison sentences. Someone arrested in the last few days is almost always in a county jail instead, and will not show up in the state prison search yet. For a recent arrest, start with the county: open our Michigan page and pick the county where the arrest happened.
People sentenced for federal crimes are held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which has its own search. See federal inmate search (BOP).
After you find them
- Visits: most prisons require you to be on the person's approved visitor list first. How visiting works.
- Money: how to send money and how commissary works.
- Mail and calls: sending mail, phone calls and video visits.
- Release and transfer alerts: VINE notifications.
Questions
Someone was just arrested in Michigan. Will they be in the MDOC search?
Usually not. People who were just arrested are held in a county jail first. They are moved to a state prison only after a sentence to state prison. Check the county jail where the arrest happened.
Is searchinmates.org part of the Michigan Department of Corrections?
No. searchinmates.org is a private website. It is not affiliated with the Michigan Department of Corrections or any government agency. The department's own search is the source of record.
Sources
We opened each of these pages on October 14, 2026. Rules and numbers change, so check the source before you act.
- OTIS home page, Michigan Department of Corrections. How the search works and what it covers.
- Correctional Institutions, Bureau of Justice Statistics. How jails (run locally) differ from prisons (run by a state or the federal government).
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