The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services runs the search for people in Nebraska state prisons. Here is how to use it, what it covers, and where to look if the person is not there.
- Agency
- Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
- Official search
- Incarceration Record Search
Open the Incarceration Record Search
How to search the Nebraska DOC inmate list
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services runs a public search called Incarceration Record Search.
Nebraska state prisons we list
We do not copy the Nebraska prison inmate list yet. These are the state prisons in our Nebraska directory, with address, phone and visiting basics. Use the department's search above to find a person.
- Community Corrections Center - Lincoln State prison in Lincoln
- Community Corrections Center - Omaha State prison in Omaha
- Diagnostic and Evaluation Center State prison in Lincoln
- Lincoln Correctional Center State prison in Lincoln
- Lincoln Regional Center State prison in Lincoln
- Nebraska Correctional Center for Women State prison in York
- Nebraska State Penitentiary State prison in Lincoln
- Norfolk Regional Center State prison in Norfolk
- Omaha Correctional Center State prison in Omaha
- Tecumseh State Correctional Institution State prison in Tecumseh
- Whitehall Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility State prison in Lincoln
- Work Ethic Camp State prison in McCook
State prison, county jail or federal prison?
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska. Will they be in the Nebraska DOC 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 Nebraska Department of Correctional Services?
No. searchinmates.org is a private website. It is not affiliated with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services 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.
- Incarceration Record Search, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. 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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