Philadelphia County jail inmate search

Through the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, the City of Philadelphia operates the Philadelphia Incarcerated Person Locator. Your search can use a full name together with a birth date. A police identification number, meaning an identification number given at arrest, also works. After a match comes up, you'll see the city facility where the person is housed. Extra search tips appear on the Locate an incarcerated person page.

A very recent arrest might not appear right away on the online locator. Registration paperwork must be finished first by staff at the State Road facilities. Call Classification, Movement, and Registration at (215) 685-8394, listed on the Philadelphia Department of Prisons contact page.

Reach the right desk using the numbers on the Philadelphia Department of Prisons contact page. Call (215) 685-8394 any time, 24/7, for Classification, Movement, and Registration to locate an incarcerated person. Dial (215) 685-8395 as an additional line.

Call the Office of Community Justice and Outreach at (215) 685-8909. To report self-harm or suicide talk to the Department of Prisons, call (215) 685-8443.

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has its headquarters at 7901 State Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19136. Each facility along State Road appears on the Visit an incarcerated person page:

• Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility: 7901 State Rd., visiting on weekdays.
• Riverside Correctional Facility: 8151 State Rd., visiting on weekdays.
• Detention Center: 8201 State Rd., where visitors go to the Riverside Correctional Facility visiting lobby.
• Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center: 8301 State Rd., visiting on weekdays.

No, in Philadelphia the sheriff's office doesn't manage the jail custody list. Local jails are managed by the City of Philadelphia through the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. The city's online locator is how you look up someone held at a State Road facility.

Plan your trip after you read the requirements on the Visit an incarcerated person page:

• Each week, incarcerated people may receive visitors for 1 hour.
• Your name must be on the approved list of visitors.
• Book at visitpdp.org 48 hours to 7 days ahead, because walk-ins aren't permitted.
• Each jail holds visits on weekdays; people seeing someone at the Detention Center report to the Riverside Correctional Facility visitor lobby.

GettingOut also lets you fund video visits.

Online or by mail, you can add money to an inmate's books, and the page Send funds to an incarcerated person walks you through it. Pay online by credit or debit card; for mail, send a certified check or money order to the person's facility. They don't accept cash or personal checks.

Commissary means the jail's store, where snacks and supplies are sold. Add commissary funds via Access Corrections, while GettingOut covers messages and tablet entertainment.

Accounts for video visits, phone calls, messages, and tablet entertainment run through GettingOut. Deposits can be made using a credit or debit card. The deposit links are posted on the page Send funds to an incarcerated person.

If someone in custody talks about suicide or self-harm during a call, don't wait. Call the Department of Prisons at (215) 685-8443 so staff can step in.

County Jail Lookup doesn't display names, photos, or arrest records. Open the Philadelphia Incarcerated Person Locator to view what the city publishes about a person in custody. A search by name and birth date, or by police identification number, shows which facility houses the person.

So someone can leave custody before trial, the court requires money or a legal promise, which is called a bail bond. Judges may allow release on recognizance, meaning the person promises to come back and pays nothing upfront. Courts also use a monetary condition, nominal or unsecured bail, or nonmonetary conditions.

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons homepage links to the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania website for paying bail online. Hiring a registered county bail bondsman is another option; so is the Pennsylvania inmate search guide.

At release, the cashier's office remains open 24 hours a day so personal effects can be collected when someone leaves custody. Check this rule against the Visit an incarcerated person page. Call Classification, Movement, and Registration at (215) 685-8394 to ask about a release.